* Navigation - Move about your code with newfound ease—to any file, method, symbol, or reference in your projects and solutions. Get anywhere from anywhere. * Code Generation - Generate code faster than you think possible, even if you use just a handful of the features in Visual Assist. As you become a proficient user, write and update code even faster. * Code Understanding - Make sense of complex code, or code you haven't touched in a long time, with an assortment of tool windows, browsers, and fields that provide information where and when you need it. * Code Correction - Watch Visual Assist correct mistakes as you make them, especially errors in symbol case and pointer notation. Type entirely in lower case, and watch Visual Assist correct the case of all of your symbols. Save the shift key for your definitions. * Configuration - Adjust the multitude of features in Visual Assist to suit your programming environment and habits. Find your favorite features, and make them hum for maximum productivity. * Code Snippets - Expand frequently typed segments of code with a more powerful version of the like-named feature in the IDE. Include symbols from the current context, prompt for user input, and edit snippets in a custom editor. * Debug Assistance - Use the VA Memory View and the VA Step Filter included with Visual Assist to shorten the time required to debug native C/C++. * Coding Assistance - Write code faster with assistance that doesn't get in your way, especially when you're on a roll. Visual Assist suggests completions only if they save you serious typing, and quietly fixes mistakes in your wake. * Refactoring - Reduce the complexity of your code, improve its readability, and make it extensible without changing its external behavior. Refactor legacy code, code you inherit, or the first version of your own work.

* Xdebug's basic functions include the display of stack traces on error conditions, maximum nesting level protection and time tracking. * The debug information that Xdebug can provide includes the following: - stack and function traces in error messages with: - full parameter display for user defined functions - function name, file name and line indications - support for member functions - memory allocation - protection for infinite recursions * Xdebug also provides: - profiling information for PHP scripts - code coverage analysis - Capabilities to debug your scripts interactively with a debugger front-end.