Visual Assist X - an add-in for Visual Studio by Whole Tomato Software

Visual Assist is loaded with over 50 time saving features. This tour will guide you through a few key features to show how it can help you.
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Develop Faster

Visual Assist X enables you to read and write code faster than ever with fewer errors.

Read code faster with Enhanced Syntax Coloring:

Write code at blinding speeds with Suggestions, Acronyms and Snippets:
Suggestions, Acronyms, VA Snippets

Correct errors before compiling.
Fewer Errors

Enhanced Syntax Coloring

Enhanced Syntax Coloring enables you to read code faster, quickly identifying Classes, Methods and Variables:

Enhnaced Syntax Coloring

You can also display local variables in bold and library methods in italic to quickly distinguish a symbol's scope.

Local variables in bold and library methods in italics

Acronyms and Suggestions

Acronyms and Suggestions enable you to type long mixed case symbols in just a few key strokes. Allowing you to just type "b1" for Button1, or "fn" for "FirstName".

acronyms and suggestions

Visual Assist X offers suggestions based on surrounding lines of code.
Suggestions based on surrounding lines of code

Shorthand finds symbols by matching partial names. Type as much as you know, and Visual Assist X narrows the search for you.
enhanced IntelliSense

VA Snippets

VA Snippets allow you to create common code blocks using just a few key strokes. They are similar to Visual Studio's Snippets, however they are much easier to Create, Modify, and Use.

VA Snippets are easily customized to fit your coding style. Use environment variables and reserved strings to expand the date, filename and more.

Fewer Errors

Visual Assist helps to create code faster and with fewer errors. Typos and other errors are underlined as you type, so you know immediately if you mistyped a symbol name, or you're using a symbol out-of-context. Correct your mistakes before you build.

Errors and typos are underlined as you type:
Underlined Errors

Detects mismatched braces instantly:

Corrects case as you type:
case correction

Decipher Existing Code

Take advantage of Enhanced IntelliSense to decipher code quickly. Enhanced completion listboxes help to shed light on unfamiliar classes and members. Watch the Hovering Class Browser inside the VA View for detailed information on the current symbol. Get a quick shot of info by looking at small context and definition fields added to the source window.
Decipher Existing Code

Enhanced IntelliSense

Enhanced IntelliSense helps you decipher unfamiliar code quickly...

Visual Assist X completion listboxes offer significant improvements over default IntelliSense listboxes with coloring, filtering, shrinking, and more!

Enhanced IntelliSense

For C and C++ users, Visual Assist X offers a huge improvement over default IntelliSense, displaying tooltips and suggestions for virtually all code and third party libraries.
enhanced IntelliSense

Hovering Class Browser

Hovering Class Browser sheds light on any class or member. Simply hover over any symbol and its class tree will be displayed.

Hovering Class Browser

Refactor Easily

Refactor existing code making it easier to read and cheaper to maintain. Visual Assist offers fast and easy refactoring across ALL languages in your solution.

Rename
Extract Method
Encapsulate Field
Change Signature
Move Implementation to Source File

Add Member
Add Similar Member
Document Method
Create Declaration
Create Implementation

VA Outline and Suggested Refactoring make refactoring easy and fast.

VA Outline

VA Outline helps you to Navigate, Organize, and Refactor your current document.

Simply drag and drop to organize the file, double click to navigate to the symbol, or triple click to select the whole body in the text editor. Refactor right from the outline to rename, change signature, comment out, #ifdef out, or encapsulate in a #region.

VA Outline

Suggested Refactoring

Suggested refactoring brings common refactoring to your fingertips.

Suggested Refactoring

Forget to add a using statement?

Suggested Refactoring

Find References

Find References better and faster in ALL languages.

Quickly see where and how any symbol is used in your solution.

Rename

Rename symbols across all files in your solution. It even has logic to find only relevant matches in comments and strings.

Rename

Enhanced Refactoring for C++

For C++ developers, Visual Assist contains extended refactoring to automate time consuming and often error prone tasks.

Create Implementation
Create Declaration
Move Implementation to Source File

Visual Assist X presents components of your code in a variety of ways, making it easy to find what you need and make changes. Search and Navigation features in Visual Assist X makes tackling large projects a manageable task.

Use Open Corresponding File to quickly switch between related files (CPP/H, ASPX/CS/VB, ...)

open corresponding files

Quickly navigate to any File in your solution...

file in solution

Quickly navigate to any Symbol in your solution...

symbol in solution

Find your way back to any file or symbol using the Most Recently Used list. Visual Assist X keeps a unique list for each solution.

MRU

Goto the definition or implementation of a symbol instantly using the Go button or keystroke.

Goto

Goto takes you directly to the implementation if the caret is already in the definition, and vice-versa. Otherwise, Goto presents a choice of implementation or definition.

Goto

Visual Assist X - an add-in for for Visual Studio

Award-winning features enable you to read, write, navigate and refactor code like never before.

Develop Faster

Enhanced Syntax Coloring

Acronyms and Suggestions

VA Snippets

Fewer Errors

Decipher Existing Code

Enhanced IntelliSense

Hovering Class Browser

Refactor Easily

VA Outline

Suggested Refactoring

Find References

Rename

Enhanced Refactoring for C++