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Visual Assist loses her X

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December 5, 2013
After ten years of dealing with her ex, Visual Assist X has regained her simpler name, Visual Assist. Now for a bit of history. The X in Visual Assist X became part of the product name in 2004, when developers at the Tomato decided it was important that customers get new features and support for IDEs as soon as the improvements were ready, not when customer wallets would tolerate the next paid…
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Visual Assist Supports Visual Studio 2013

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November 15, 2013
Whole Tomato has always taken pride in maintaining support for every Microsoft IDE our customers use, from Visual C++ 6.0 through Visual Studio 2013. If you own a license for Visual Assist, or are considering a trial, know that the latest build of Visual Assist has full…
Tips and Tricks

alt+g in Comments

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September 8, 2010
If you don’t read our build change history page, you might miss some small gold nuggets.  For example, back in build 1734, we added an enhancement to our goto command (alt+g) so that it operates within comments.  The accuracy of goto within comments depends upon…
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Open File in Solution tip

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August 31, 2010
I was using the OFIS (Open File in Solution) dialog the other day and it occurred to me that I use some features in it that might not be so apparent to users that didn’t actually write the code for it.  As an aside, this feature was formerly known as Open File in Workspace (or OFIW) before Workspaces were replaced by Solutions in Visual Studio.NET.  It took us a few years after the release…
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Visual Studio 2010 sim-ship

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February 9, 2010
We’re excited to announce plans to simultaneously ship Visual Assist X 10.6 with Visual Studio 2010 this Spring!  As a Visual Studio Industry Partner, we’ve been working hard to make sure the features you’ve come to expect from Visual Assist X are ready to…
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VA X in VS2010 Update

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October 27, 2009
With Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 released last week, we want to get our next Beta of VA X out as soon as we can.  We are currently working through some breaking changes introduced in Beta 2, but we hope to resolve these quickly and get a build out in the next week or…
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Enhanced suggestions

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October 6, 2009
In our latest builds of Visual Assist X, we’ve been sneaking in some enhancements from our work on the upcoming Visual Studio 2010 beta. We decided to roll these features out early so our users could start enjoying them in currently supported IDEs with out having to…
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VA X in VS2010

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September 15, 2009
VS2010: VA X and C++/CLI Microsoft seems to have challenged themselves to see how much they can change for VS2010 — new WPF shell, snazzy text editor, MEF-based extensibility, VSIX installers, C++ build system, oh my. This is a major release both on the surface and under the hood, and the changes have impacted VA X on all sides.  But we’re happy to report we have VA X running in…
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