Code View Assistant Overview

The CodeSMART Code View Assistant brings a rich set of visual enhancements to the standard Visual Basic code editor window. With the CodeSMART Code View Assistant enabled the Visual Basic code window dramatically changes with critical information provided on many control statements, branch lines to visually identify code nesting and assisted navigation between control statement opening and closing parts.

Code View Assistant features:

1. Branch Lines: these are drawn to emphasize a control statement branch, that is a line drawn between the opening and closing parts of that control statement, very useful in visualizing code nesting.
2. End-of-Line Details: descriptive comments at the end of certain control statement closing parts, it can be used to identify a long branch.
3. Hotspot Markers: visual hotspots for control statements and procedures, these can be used to navigate (with mouse clicks) between the opening and closing parts of the control statement/procedure.
4. Current Line Highlighting: as its name implies, this assists the developer by highlighting the active code line.
5. Right Hand Separator Line: a vertical separator line can be drawn at a specified column on the right side of the code window, in order to visually help the developer in respecting a certain maximum line length standard.

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