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Reply Quoting This MessageEdit Message d000hg    Member since: 1/21/2002  From: Durham, United Kingdom
 Posted - 6/16/2009 6:08:39 AM
I've been trialling Visual Assist X by Whole Tomato Software, which provides refactoring and better intellisense in Visual C++. My trial is up and it will cost me either $99 or $200+ to get a license (I work professionally from home so I insist on buying licenses for things I use).
That's a bit more than I want to pay and I wondered if there are any credible competitors out there? Any recommendations?
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Reply Quoting This MessageEdit Message Yourself    Member since: 2/25/2008
 Posted - 6/16/2009 7:28:37 AM
visual sidekick has some of the feature (http://www.visualsidekick.com/Syntaxia/HomePage.php) but as far as I know Visual Assist is by far the best tool available.
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Reply Quoting This MessageEdit Message Muhammad Haggag  Moderator  Member since: 9/22/2000  From: Redmond, WA, United States
 Posted - 6/16/2009 8:36:54 PM
As far as Visual Studio plugins go, you won't find anything better for C++. If you're open to moving to other editors, though, some folks on my team use SlickEdit and swear by it. I haven't used it myself, though.
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Reply Quoting This MessageEdit Message frob    Member since: 3/12/2005  From: Salt Lake City, UT, United States
 Posted - 6/17/2009 10:10:50 AM
DevExpress offers a CodeRush and Refactor! Pro for a similar price. It is more tailored to the .net libraries than raw C++, but it has many refactorings and other tools that make it quite useful. I like to use it along side Visual Assist. Note that Microsoft licensed a subset of their Refactor! product that ships with Visual Studio.


For products like these the price of $100-$200 seems completely reasonable to me. When considering the hours saved, even on my hobby development, they are well worth the cost.
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