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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#.

For more info read here.

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Visual Studio shortcut key for edit-and-continue: pause, (compile) and then run again

Is there a shortcut key for pause and then, run again immediately after compilation? It will be helpful when debugging while doing edit and continue...
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does anyone know what visual assist is?

Can anyone please tell me what is the main use of visual assist? Does it really help?
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Can we refactor our class if its fully written in .h file into .h + .cpp using Visual Assist X?

Can we refactor our class if its fully written in .h file into .h + .cpp using Visual Assist X? (I mean having all functions written in .h file)
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How to import Visual Assist snippets to Visual Studio 2017?

I have downloaded the latest Visual Studio Community and InteliSense seems to work well even without the Visual Assist plugin, save a few bugs. I'd therefore like to continue working without the plugin. I had plenty of code snippets in Visual…
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Content assist : clue of type of a function that has parameter type depend on "using" inside T

How to make Visual Studio show a completely-deduced content-assist for a function that has type depends on alias of a T? Example b.f in the example can't give me a completely-deduced content-assist. It should clue int, not…
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Visual Assist (Visual studio 2013) auto-suggestion not applying (TAB)

I'm not sure which hotkey I triggered, but I seemed to have disabled the TAB key auto typing the suggested code and it's really getting annoying. Does anyone know a fix for this? For example: class Class1 { private: float Value; public: void…
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Turn off VisualAssist for *.cl, *.cu and *.cuh

How can I define which filetypes are affected by VisualAssist in Visual Studio 2010? For example, I don't like how this tool works with openCL and cuda files, therefore I would like to turn off it for these file types (oherwise it highlights 1000…
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Visual Studio 2013 opens function's deceleration in the wrong menu

While debugging, for time to time, i use the F12 button to view function's definition / declaration. Usually, VS opens the needed file as a secondary tab in the main menu. Recently, not sure what i've done, it started opening the code in the lower…
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Visual Studio 2013 highlight stronger than Visual Assist X

There are 3 related highlight settings in Tools / Options / Environment / Fonts and Colors Highlighted reference (A) VA Find reference (B) VA Find reference (modified) (C) If I move onto a variable with the cursor then all references become…
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Making visual assist document all methods in a certain class \ page

Is it possible to build a script to force VAx to document all methods \ functions of a certain class? I find it quite annoying to manually document each new function i write. i tried customizing visual assist's shortcuts using the following key:…
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In Visual Assist X in Visual Studio 2013, how to expand/display the previously closed "Find References Results" pane?

I frequently encounter a minor, but annoying, UI issue with Visual Assist X in the Visual Studio 2013 development environment. Often, after executing a Find References command using VAX, I close the Find References Results pane by clicking its X…
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How to unhighlight visual assist x highlighted find result?

Visual assist x is able to highlight the find result, It is useful while I am searching for the right result. But after I got the right one, it is useless. Then how could I unhighlight the result?
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Trim File Name in Visual Assist Snippet/Macro

I am using Visual Assist X in Visual Studio 2008. I am defining a bunch of forward declaration files, all of which have basically the same format: namespace ns1 { namespace ns2 { class SampleClassName; boost::shared_ptr…
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Visual Assist Filtering Toolbar doesnt show up

I have visual studio 2013, latest resharper and latest visual assist. I install visual assist because visual assist intellisense and code colouring features are way better than resharper and I just cant live without it. I install resharper because…
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ReSharper: Highlighting in Tooltips

Does ReSharper have the option to highlight text in tooltips? Like in Visual Assist: It increases readability significantly, I think.
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