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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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When refactoring, how can I cause duplicated code to use the extracted method?

I extracted some template methods for dealing with STL containers, so a vector of any type can use the function customPushBack(&vec, item) where the item will only be pushed back if it isn't already in the vector and certain conditions are met. Do…
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Find usage in Visual C++ with Visual Assist

I am using VS 2010, does Visual C++ with Visual Assist provide refactor functions on finding usage of variables? I right click the variable and the find usage function is always grey out.
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Have Visual Assist X disabled by default?

Is there a way that when Visual Studio Starts have Visual Assist disabled and enable it when I need it? I mostly work with C# projects and for that I use Resharper. However when I am working with C++ I would like to use Visual Assist and only then…
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VisualAssistX is messing up my C++ VS2008 colour scheme

I have VisualAssistX installed on my VS2008 IDE, and I have set all the colouring options I could find (VS Fonts & colours as well as VisualAssistX options colours) to defaults However, when I turn on VAX, I go from my regular scheme to THIS I…
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How to format code in visual assist X

How to format (clean UP) C++ code in visual assist X 10. I'm using Resharper to clean up the code. but the shortcut doesn't work for c++ files. does this feature exist in visual assist X 10?
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Managed C++ rename refactoring without keeping files open

I'm currently using Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Assist X to do rename refactorings in managed C++ code. For small codebases or renaming items which are not used very often in the code it works great. It's almost impossible to rename an item which…
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Visual help for recognizing classes in eclipse

When my project grows too big, it also get harder to recognize the growing number of classes. I'm looking for a plugin for eclipse, that makes it easier to differentiate the classes by assigning icons or colors to them. Alternatively I'm looking for…
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How does Visual Assist X rename symbol work?

I want to remove the Hungarian Notation from a gigantic piece of code,but I'm not sure how the addon handles replaces.I mean - if I have: void DoNothing(int *pNothing) { pNothing = 0; }; And I click on 'pNothing' and rename it to 'nothing' wiht the…
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Indentation in Visual Studio 2010 for C++ using Visual Assist X

I've come acrossed something annoying about indentation in C++ (using Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Assist X). The thing is that every time I want to start a new line after keying in ctrl+enter and ctrl+shift+enter, the cursor begins at the very…
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Visual Assist Macros

Do you have any visual assist macros that you write and you want to share? it can be very useful on coding.. people who use Visual-Assist knows that..
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Visual Assist Automated installation for multiple versions of Visual Studio

I would like to know how we can modify the automated installation process to allow the installation of VA in all versions of Visual Studio. Is there a specific value or parameter that needs to be added into the .inf file on the line following line:…
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Visual Studio auto tab "Move Lines Up/Down"

I normally select a portion of code and then use Alt+Up/Down to perform a "Edit.MoveSelectedLinesUp" or "Edit.MoveSelectedLinesDown". Trying to fix another auto formatting issue, I changed a substantial amount of settings. Then I didn't remember…
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How to close the internal member nav bar in the top of the code editor?

After install visual assist x in vs2010. I think the internal member nav bar in code editor is no need.
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IntelliSense move lines while I am choosing suggestion with arrow keys

IntelliSense move lines while I am choosing suggestion with arrow keys, so when i press enter (or tab) to confirm - it goes crazy and delete half of my code gif of problem: https://i.stack.imgur.com/AryDG.jpg How do I fix this?
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Assigning a shortcut to Visual Assist's quick actions

In plain Visual Studio there is the Alt+Enter shortcut, which brings up a popup with quick fixes and improvement suggestions. I am using the Visual Assist plugin for c++ development, which lets me right-click on a item and open 'Quick Actions and…
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