Enable Visual Assist in file types with custom language service

Visual Assist build 2086 and newer, using Visual Studio 2010 or newer

By default, Visual Assist is inactive in files, i.e. extensions, with your own language service.  You can tell Visual Assist to treat these files as txt files so you will experience the basic features available in txt files.

To do this, create a STRING value:

HKCU\Software\Whole Tomato\Visual Assist X\<IDE spec>\CustomContentTypes

Set the value to the name of your custom content type and terminate with a semi-colon.

Next, add your custom file extension to the ExtPlainText registry value and terminate with a semi-colon:

HKCU\Software\Whole Tomato\Visual Assist X\<IDE spec>\ExtPlainText

and set:

HKCU\Software\Whole Tomato\Visual Assist X\<IDE spec>\RestrictVaToPrimaryFileTypes = 00

Features of Visual Assist that become available include:

• Highlight Current Line
• Highlight Matching Words (applies to all text in plain text files)
• Column Indicator
• Surround Selection (partial support)
• Multiple Clipboards
• VA Snippets
• Sort Selected Lines
• Find Symbol in Solution (pre-population of the edit field when invoking while text is selected in editor)