{"id":1568,"date":"2019-05-03T15:46:16","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T19:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wholetomato.com\/?p=1568"},"modified":"2023-11-21T08:02:36","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T12:02:36","slug":"visual-studio-2019-moves-vassistx-to-extensions-menu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wholetomato.com\/blog\/visual-studio-2019-moves-vassistx-to-extensions-menu\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Studio 2019 moves VAssistX to Extensions menu"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 moved all extension menus, including the VAssistX menu of Visual Assist, to a new, top-level Extensions menu. According to Mads Kristensen<\/a>, a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft, the menus were moved to “give the ecosystem more prominence and declutter the top-level menu when you have a lot of extensions installed<\/a>“. That reasoning might be solid, but it does require an extra keystroke or click to reach extension commands.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

In prior versions of Visual Studio, the VAssistX menu is opened via a single Alt+X. That shortcut, fortuitously, now opens the Extensions menu. In Visual Studio 2019, a subsequent X opens the VAssistX menu within the Extensions menu.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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If you are a keyboard user of Visual Studio<\/a> 2019, use Alt+X, X to reach any VAssistX command previously reached with Alt+X. And when you in the documentation for Visual Assist, know that you must use Alt+X, X every time you read Alt+X.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Those looking to restore old behavior in Visual Studio 2019 might find Extensions in Main menu<\/a> useful. If you try the extension and want a single Alt+X to open VAssistX, use ‘Tools | Customize |Commands’ to change the accelerator key for Extensions, e.g. from &x to &i.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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