Adding a file type to Visual Assist X

Posted on by Gav

So you’ve added the file type to Visual Studio (see last post) but that’s not enough, you also have that rather wonderful “Visual Assist X” extension installed and want that to work too. Follow these steps:

  1. Open RegEdit – click the Windows/start button, in the search/run box type “regedit” and press return.
  2. In RegEdit browse to the keys:
    HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareWhole TomatoVisual Assist XVANet9
  3. Edit the existing string “ExtSource” and add “.m;” to the end of the string.
  4. Open Visual Studio, open Visual Assist’s options dialog. Click “Performance” and then click the “Rebuild” button.
  5. Close and then restart Visual Studio.
  6. You’re done! Open a “.m” file to check it out.