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Visual Assist supports Visual Studio Community 2013

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November 14, 2014
Yesterday, Microsoft announced Visual Studio Community 2013—a terrific addition to its lineup of IDEs. In addition to being fully featured, Visual Studio Community 2013 provides access to the Visual Studio extensibility ecosystem, including to Visual Assist. This extensibility should appeal to every user of the non-extensible Express Edition. If you install Visual Studio…
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Build Announcements

Visual Assist build 2052 is available

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November 9, 2014
It’s not often one gets to write “introduce” twice in a sentence, but here goes: Visual Assist introduces Introduce Variable. Introduce Variable, a powerful refactoring for C/C++ and C#, replaces an expression with a meaningfully named variable. In…
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Tools to understand new code: Go To

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October 27, 2014
You’ve just started a new job and landed in front of a huge code base. Great! What a challenge! It would be nice to quickly get a general understanding of your project and be able to comfortably move around in the code. How do you do it? In my series of articles as…
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Visual Assist build 2048 is available

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September 26, 2014
Visual Assist build 2048 was issued on the heels of build 2047 in order to fix a regression in the latter. Using build 2047, a VA Snippet that includes a GUID reserved string expands the string to zeros instead of a valid GUID. If you have build 2047 and use VA Snippets to create your GUIDs, you should install build 2048. Visual Assist build 2048 requires software maintenance through…
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Build Announcements

Visual Assist build 2047 is available

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September 19, 2014
Visual Assist build 2047 introduces a powerful new navigation command, improves the VA Step Filter, and increases availability of Quick Info. Since the inception of Visual Assist, the Goto (Alt+G) command has been a favorite among our users, even after the IDE…
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Organize VA Snippets with hashtags

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August 31, 2014
For a user with a modest collection of VA Snippets, the built-in type filtering and auto-sorting of the VA Snippet Editor are sufficient tools to manage the collection. Type filtering divides VA Snippets by access method in the UI of Visual Assist, and auto-sorting within…
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Visual Assist build 2043 is available

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July 12, 2014
In our last build, we introduced a powerful feature for users of the native C/C++ debugger in Visual Studio 2010 and newer. The VA Step Filter lets one step into the body of a method without stepping into and out of methods in its parameter list. Build 2043 fixes several bugs in the VA Step Filter, and expands its list of built-in filters. If you use the VA Step Filter, you should download and…
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Build Announcements

Visual Assist build 2042 is available

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June 30, 2014
If you follow our blog, you might remember my mentioning a forthcoming enhancement to the Visual Studio debugger. We demonstrated that feature—the VA Step Filter—at the Build conference in April to rave reviews, and we are happy to announce that the feature is…
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License and maintenance options get an update

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June 26, 2014
We’ve updated our license and maintenance options for Visual Assist, and we want to take this opportunity to explain what remains the same, what’s changed, and what it means for you. Our standard license of Visual Assist now better serves the…
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Filtering results of Find References

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June 17, 2014
We regularly hear from C/C++ and C# users that Find References is their most-used feature of Visual Assist. Despite the existence of a similarly named feature in Visual Studio, the functionality and speed provided by our version appears to be a game changer. And Find References keeps getting better. Beginning with Visual Assist build 2036, you can filter the results of Find References, in…
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