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Visual Assist is a commercial Visual Studio extension that enhances overall code editing.

Visual Assist is developed by Whole Tomato Software and offers various enhancements to Visual Studio. These enhancements include more detailed syntax highlighting, improved code completion, more navigation options, and last but not least, an array of refactoring tools.

Visual Assist is compatible with many versions of Visual Studio and supports C/C++ and C#.

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tooltips in Visual Studio 2010

Sometimes I prefer to add a comment after declare a variable. For example: bool isOverhwndChild1; // This is just an example to make my question clear and you can understand. bool isOverhwndChild2; // This is just an example to make my question…
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Anyone using Visual Assist? How does VA get the source code content?

I'm using Visual Assist with VC6, it seems to be a powerfull tool. As a programmer, I'm curious about the implementation. I'm wondering how does VA get the source code content? it seems that VA knows every line of my code file, even when it's…
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Visual Assist X -- More items in Intellisense?

Right now, Visual Assist X shows 5 items in my Intellisense suggestions window (i.e. when I begin typing). Is there any way to increase it? 5 items is too few. :(
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Visul Studio 2022 with Visual Assist - GO button gets huge issue

I am using: current version of Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 (64-bit) - Version 17.4.3. current version of Visual Assist (Visual Assist build 2022.5) I have a random problem, when Go button sometimes after pressing some function with ctrl + right…
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VimPlugin: Scroll autocomplete suggestion in Visual Studio without arrows

Is possible to configure Vim plugin for VisualStudio to let you scroll the VisualAssistX's context menu showing autocomplete options without using arrows keys? I found this bug but those shortcut don't work for me. It seems to scroll through and…
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How I can close horisontal navigation panels in VS 2017?

When I edit sources in VS 2017, I see next navigation panels (above the source): Some of them could be created by an Visual Assist. How can I close some of them? Where are the settings for displaying these panels?
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Showing contextual documentation for C++ virtual functions in Visual Studio

Is there a way to annotate a virtual function so that Visual Studio will show documentation from the function's base declaration on all its implementations? I'm imagining something of this form: class Base { // [some documentation, probably with…
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Is there a way to create Visual Assist specific preprocessor sections?

I have some complicated preprocessor macros which use the N-arg trick to count arguments and generate specific sub macro depending on the __VA_ARG__ argument count. Visual Assist doesn't like that and it completely messes up the parsing and the…
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Visual Studio environment alternative

I use Visual C++ (7.1 and 8.0) on huge C++ project. The solution contains thousands of files. Visual Assist helps in jumping to function and class definitions. The problem is that it sometimes becomes too slow. I just can't edit a single letter…
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How to "Go to definition" of a function using Visual Assist?

I am using Visual Assist for last couple of months. Alt+G is very useful and fast in finding definition of anything under cursor. But I am not able to figure out how to Go to definition by manually putting the function-name or class-name as text…
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How to teach Visual Assist to assist me with smart pointers?

We usually define classes that are often used like this: class SomeClass { // Some code here }; typedef std::shared_ptr SomeClassPtr; Because frankly having to type std::shared_ptr every time is a suicide. However Visual…
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What is an efficient way to list all macros defined in a Visual Studio C++ Project (with Visual Assist)?

I want to list all macros which were defined inside a certain Visual Studio 2010 Project or Solution. Is there an efficient way to list them with a Tool (might be Visal Assist, too). Or is there a good regex to find them all? If there is an enhanced…
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Is there anything like VisualAssistX for Eclipse? or I'd like some autocomplete with my cup of Eclipse

I'm currently being forced to work with Eclipse on one of my current projects. The language we're working with is C++. The one thing I miss the most from Visual Studio is VisualAssistX, mostly for its Auto Complete. Is there anything like it for…
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Visual Studio 2015 / Visual Assist autocomplete behaviour

When I type a word e.g. "cat", and then start typing another word at the start "ccat" and then use autocomplete (press enter with a suggestion selected, e.g. "cout"), the entire first word will be replaced, so I end up with just "cout". This is not…
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Visual-Assist Add Include directive

I have a project name "HelloWorld" Folder "include" Class1.h Class2.h Folder "src" Class1.cpp If I use the the feature "Add #include Directive" from Class1.cpp, the following include gets added: #include "..\include\Class2.h" But in my project I…
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