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Thanks for your patience, and we’ll keep you updated…

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Enhanced suggestions are one of the items we’ve added.

VA now offers smarter suggestions based on types in assignments, conditional statements, method arguments and return values. For example, when assigning to a variable “v = “, VA will suggest other variables of the same type from the current scope. For certain types such as bool, VA will also suggest relevant values (“true” and “false”).  In method calls, VA looks at the method signature and makes suggestions based on the type of the current argument. Suggestions are also offered for return values, based on the method’s return type.

Enhanced suggestions are influenced by scope.  For example, VA suggests case/break/default in switch statements and private/protected/public in class definitions. Within a switch statement on an enum, VA suggests the enum items in the case statements.

You may also notice that our suggestions as a whole are less noisy, take up less screen real estate and are more accurate. They contain less of the stuff you will likely never type and better guesses at what you are likely to type. Suggestion listbox tooltips only display once you pause typing, reducing distraction and saving valuable screen real estate, yet preserving the additional information for when you need it. We hope you like the changes!

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VS2010: VA X and C++/CLI

Microsoft seems to have challenged themselves to see how much they can change for VS2010 — new WPF shell, snazzy text editor, MEF-based extensibility, VSIX installers, C++ build system, oh my. This is a major release both on the surface and under the hood, and the changes have impacted VA X on all sides.  But we’re happy to report we have VA X running in VS2010, and we are currently shaking out bugs.

We are excited by the possibilities of the new WPF text editor, as it will enable new VA X features that simply were not possible in earlier IDEs.  But for now, most of our time has been spent simply trying to achieve feature parity with what we already do in the older IDEs.  Once we’ve done that, we can begin the real brainstorming for what’s ahead.

We’ll be releasing a beta of our VS2010 support when Microsoft releases their next public beta.

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For those of you still using VC++ 6, care to share why?  Are you still using the VC++ 6 compiler and libraries, or have you modified the build environment to use different tools?

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• Support for Web and WPF projects, including ASP/ASP.NET, HTML, XML, JavaScript, VBScript, and XAML
  • New IntelliSense features include smart guesses for JavaScript member lists and HTML code completion with paths to images and other resources
  • Navigate easily between .aspx and code-behind files in ASP.NET
  • Additional VA Snippets
• Highlight find results (Visual Studio .NET and later)
  • Controlled via VA Options|Advanced|Display|Highlight find results
  • Choose highlight color via IDE’s Fonts & Colors list for Find Result (VA X)
• Optional tomato icons in listboxes and tooltips denote content provided by Visual Assist X vs. the IDE
  • Controlled via VA Options|Advanced|Display|Use tomato icons in listboxes and tooltips to mark Visual Assist X content

  

• Find References results grouped by project
  • VA Options|Advanced|Refactoring|Display project nodes in Find References results
  • VA Options|Advanced|Refactoring|Display project nodes in Rename dialog reference lists
• Improved VA Outline behavior
  • VA Outline remembers the expanded state of each node when refreshing its contents
  • Optionally auto-expands nodes as the user navigates in the code editor.

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Most products aren’t like this.  Clearly other development tools, IDEs and compilers fall into this category.  And perhaps source control and bug tracking tools qualify, although more indirectly.  But outside of software, I have trouble thinking of similar examples.  Manufacturing?  Chemical reactions?  Books about making books?

What other companies use their own product in the direct production of that very product?

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