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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 disable spelling check

How can I disable spelling check in Visual Studio 2010? By spelling check I mean in comments, string etc, not in actual code
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Disable Visual Assist X for certain project types

Is there any way to disable Visual Assist X for all project types but C/C++? I'm switching a lot between C++ and C# projects, and I way prefer Resharper for handling C# projects. I know I can enable/disable Visual Assist manually through the…
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Tool Comparison: Visual Assist X and Resharper

.NET developers out there! Need your opinion here! I am now using Visual Assist X, a decent piece of software, indeed. But the .NET bloggers seem to prefer Resharper more. I might want to consider a switch over, but before that I want your guys…
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How are ReSharper C++ and Visual Assist different?

What's different between the two? JetBrains lists some differences here, but I heard there might be some inaccuracies in the list.
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Resharper and ViEmu Keybindings ( and Visual Assist )

With ViEmu you really need to unbind a lot of resharpers keybindings to make it work well. Does anyone have what they think is a good set of keybindings that work well for resharper when using ViEmu? What I'm doing at the moment using the Visual…
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Disable loading Visual Assist X when launching Visual Studio

Is there any way to disable VA X when launching VS and turn it back on only when needed? Since it will cause some lag. I seem can't find the option either in VS's option or VA's option.
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Running Visual Assist X and ReSharper 5.0 at the same time

VS 2005/2008/2010 I have latest Visual Assist X and Resharper 5.0 installed at the same time. I found some Resharper shortkeys and functionality became disabled or stopped working. Do these 2 plugins conflict? How do I check what has been disabled…
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Can I use Visual Assist X on more than one machine?

A copy of the Visual Studio plug-in Visual Assist X costs US$250, or US$50 for an academic licence. However, I code as much on my laptop as I do on my desktop, so I'm guessing I have to buy 2 licenses?
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Can Intellisense in Visual Studio 2017 suggest C++ headers to include?

Coming from a primarily C# background, I used ReSharper for many years. Being able to place my cursor on an unresolved reference, hit Alt+Enter, and select an option to add the appropriate using statement was invaluable. Now, Visual Studio 2017 has…
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Visual Assist low performance

I am using Visual Assist X for C/C++ code in Visual Studio 2005 but I see that, sometime, when visual studio take focus, the processor is working too much and I cannot type code. If I am waiting somes seconds, it return the focus.
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Visual Studio 2012 IntelliSense with Visual Assist X and Doxygen

I used to write simple comments into my header files in the style of // Returns a new string in which all occurrences of a specified string in the // current instance are replaced with another specified string. // - strSubject: The string to perform…
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text highlighting visual assist x

I am looking for a way to disable the text of similar values being highlighted when you click/edit a variable, i.e. I click enemyValue and type something next to it and it automatically highlights all the text. I have searched and cannot find…
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Visual Studio 2010 + Visual Assist C++: Are there any automated ways to create getters and setters?

So I am creating a simple class like: class file { public: boost::filesystem::path path; bool is_directory; boost::uintmax_t target_size; void get(boost::shared_ptr socket,…
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Disable DevExpress / VassistX by default?

Is there any way to prevent start/load of DevExpress and/or Vissual assist? Even if disabling it's up'n running the next time. When using a limited cpu larger projects sometimes freezes everything for a bunch of minutes each time you forget to…
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How to change the symbol databases folder of the VisualAssist X?

Does anybody know if it is possible to change the folder, where the VisualAssist X stores its symbol databases? By default it is in <%APPDATA%>\VisualAssist
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