Visual Assist
on 03.30.06, 06:39am in software • comments (5)
Like many developers, I’m a utility junkie - so I’m always on the lookout for great tools to really help my productivity throughout the day. For the last year, I’ve been a die-hard fan of Whole Tomato Software’s Visual Assist.
Not only does it make IntelliSense actually "intelligent", it has tons of little features and shortcuts that really speed up my development time. I have to admit though that my favorite feature is "Spell Check". How many times have you been reading source code that’s just littered with typo’s in the comments.
A definite must have add-on to your Visual Studio arsenal. Highly recommended.
Mike (March 30, 2006 @ 7:28 am)
LOL!
Please tell me you put an apostrophe in “typo’s” on purpose.
Steve (March 30, 2006 @ 7:45 am)
I’ll never tell.
Tommy Williams (March 30, 2006 @ 5:23 pm)
The tool he mentions does spell-checking in Visual Studio, so unless he writes his blog in Visual Studio, it won’t help much.
But that is one seriously cool-looking addition to Visual Studio.
Given all that it can do, does it slow down VS at all?
Malia (March 30, 2006 @ 6:41 pm)
Hello, I obviously am not as computer savy as you guys, thus my question.
I want to know if I can take a template that I created in MS Publisher for a Label and bring all the info over to a new one without losing or changing any info? I have tried for 2 days now, to no avail. Can you assist me? please! Thanks, Malia
Steve (March 30, 2006 @ 7:42 pm)
Tommy - I haven’t really noticed a slowdown in VS at all. The thing that I really like is the ability to have intellisense on files, without having them open in a project or workspace.
I’ve gotten so used to it, I can’t really use VS w/o it.