Visual Assist is a
plug-in
Plug-in, plug in or plugin may refer to:
* Plug-in (computing) is a software component that adds a specific feature to an existing computer program.
** Audio plug-in, adds audio signal processing features
** Photoshop plugin, a piece of softwar ...
for
Microsoft Visual Studio
Visual Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) from Microsoft. It is used to develop computer programs including websites, web apps, web services and mobile apps. Visual Studio uses Microsoft software development platforms such a ...
developed by Whole Tomato Software. The plug-in primarily enhances
IntelliSense and
syntax highlighting. It also enhances code suggestions, provides
refactoring commands, and includes
spell checking support for comments. It can also detect basic syntax mistakes such as use of undeclared variables.
As of April 2019, Visual Assist supports Visual C++ 6.0 through most versions of Visual Studio, including Visual Studio 2019 and Visual Studio Community 2019. (Visual Studio Express editions lack third-party extensibility and Visual Studio Code uses a separate extensibility model, thus Visual Assist cannot be used with them.)
See also
*
CodeRush
CodeRush Classic is a refactoring and productivity plugin by DevExpress that extends native functionality of Microsoft Visual Studio (Visual Studio .NET 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017 and 2019).
CodeRush Classic provides solution-wide static code anal ...
* ReSharper by
JetBrains
External links
Official website
.NET programming tools
Microsoft Visual Studio extensions