Re: Dealing with a new codebase

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I found the same thing. Once it had finished updating, I felt like I was watching a movie every time I moved the cursor or typed anything. Just too much going on that I don't really need. Of course it's infinitely customizable but spending a lot of time switching things off on all my machines sorta defeats the purpose.

The older I get, the more I appreciate the simplicity and raw speed of notepad. :)

-JJ

Gerry Murphy wrote:
Well, I tried Visual Assist for a couple of weeks but now I think I'm going to uninstall it.
It keeps updating intellisense everytime I open VS and this takes forever.
Most of the other features are not immediately useful to me.

Thanks.

Gerry Murphy

"David Ching" <dc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:sz0Pj.2214$pS4.280@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"Gerry Murphy" <gerrymurphy429@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:eFjGQy6oIHA.548@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Dave,

I've got that installed, everybody here likes and uses it, but it's not immediately obvious to me how that helps. ( I am new to VA)

It helps in several ways. Most importantly (for me) is that when you put the cursor on a symbol, the bar at the top shows the declaration (so you instantly know what type it is). Typing Alt+G goes to the declaration. Once there, pressing Ctrl+* pops back up to the original location. This lets you effortlessly drill down into function calls and data symbols and come back up. So you can see how functions relate to each other.

If you hover over a symbol, the down arrow appears, clicking it gives you a menu with "Find References" in it. You instantly get a list of all the places where the symbol is referenced.

The VA Outline window gives you a high level view of what is available in the currently active file.

Finally, the syntax coloring is much better, it colors more things appropriately and makes it easier to read code.

-- David





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