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 uniqueness of identifier name and context of the comment, and [...]
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alt+g in Comments
Posted in Tips and Tricks, VA X Features on September 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Open File in Solution tip
Posted in Tips and Tricks, VA X Features on August 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
VA X in VS2010 Update
Posted in Tips and Tricks on October 27, 2009 | 5 Comments »
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 two. [...]
Enhanced suggestions
Posted in Tips and Tricks, VA X Features on October 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
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 wait for the full VS2010 beta. Hope you [...]
Add Include
Posted in Tips and Tricks, VA X Features on May 6, 2009 | 12 Comments »
We recently released a feature for C/C++ that has long been requested: Add Include. A lot of work had previously been put into our #include completion listboxes – but that work is moot because now you don’t need to type #includes directives by hand. The Add Include command is available when you place the caret [...]
VA Snippet Tip #1
Posted in Tips and Tricks on March 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
VA Snippets support a number of reserved strings that enable text substitution when inserted into the text editor. For example, any occurrence of $selected$ in a snippet is replaced with the actual text editor selection at the time the snippet was invoked. As noted in a previous post, VA Snippets support shortcuts. You wouldn’t want [...]
Methods in File
Posted in Tips and Tricks on February 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s a quickie… When you are in a source window, pressing Alt+M displays the VA X Methods in File list. Did you know you can filter the list by typing after the list is displayed? Yeah, most people know that. Did you know you can filter using multiple strings as in the OFIS and FSIS [...]
Versionitis (of the host environment)
Posted in Other, Tips and Tricks on January 7, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Yesterday, I posted about a new feature in VA X 10.5. I failed to mention that the new feature is only supported in Visual Studio versions starting with Visual Studio.NET (vs2002+). While we continue to support VC++ 6, not all features we introduce going forward will be available in that environment. That said, we don’t [...]
Mark All Occurrences (VA X 10.5)
Posted in Tips and Tricks on January 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Highlight Find Results is a new feature in Visual Assist X 10.5. By default, this feature tracks your standard Find commands and highlights all of the find results in the text editor. Some people may not want this feature enabled by default and would rather manually invoke highlighting. Here’s how. First, to disable the default [...]
Refresh Find References
Posted in Tips and Tricks on December 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Find References is great at locating references to symbols across your solution. But did you know that when you just want to search the active file, you can use the Find References in File command? You get a shorter search duration and the results list window is the same one you use with Find References. [...]
