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Enterprise .NET work runs on documentation, and documentation is typed prose. Typally puts your words into Visual Studio the moment you release the key, in whichever field you left the cursor.
Written by the team behind Typally. Visual Studio's own features are described as accurately as we can — check them yourself before switching anything.None in the IDE itself. Windows' own Win + H dictation reaches its text fields.
Large .NET codebases are maintained by people who did not write them, often years later. XML documentation comments and thorough commit messages are the only bridge, and both are long-form writing.
In practice people use it for: XML documentation comments, commit messages, pull request descriptions, architecture decision records, and Copilot prompts.
Typally runs in the background and types into whatever window has focus, so there is nothing to install inside Visual Studio:
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Whatever has the cursor receives the text, so click the right place in Visual Studio before starting.
Say the whole thought, then let go. No time limit.
IntelliSense reacts to every inserted character, so dictating into a code file triggers completion popups that swallow text.
Typally types into XML documentation comments, the commit box and pull request descriptions. Windows' own Win + H covers the same fields for free and is worth trying first; where Typally differs is the cleanup pass and custom vocabulary for the class and namespace names that general models mangle. Keep it out of code files, where IntelliSense swallows text.
A developer documenting a payment service dictates the remarks section explaining which edge cases the retry logic covers and which it deliberately does not. Two years later that paragraph is the reason a production incident takes an hour rather than a day.
Dictate the summary and remarks sections of XML docs. The tag structure is faster typed; the explanation inside the tags is faster spoken.
IntelliSense reacts to every inserted character, so dictating into a code file triggers completion popups that swallow text.
The prose inside them, yes. Type the tags themselves.
Win + H types into focused text fields, including the IDE's.
Not for the code. For everything around it, yes.
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