Visual Assist

Eliminate the frustration in C, C#, and C++ development in Visual Studio.

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Quality of Support Static Code Analysis
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Ease of Use Static Code Analysis

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The benefits of using Visual Assist:

Raw performance

No more long loading times: Visual Assist is built with performance in mind. With highly optimized memory usage, all features, refactorings, and navigations are readily available to you. It’s fast, responsive, and agile—even when working on huge projects

Smarter code insights

Visual Assist understands what you are trying to do. It uses fuzzy parsing to recognize incomplete code that is not even compilable yet.

Its smart coding insights gives you speedy, contextual, and heuristic code completion and navigation prompts even as you’re midway through typing code. It will even suggest code completion prompts that you were unaware of!

Specialized support

Visual Studio sometimes does not recognize languages that look similar to C++. This can cause frustration because features such as syntax highlighting and basic navigations break down.

Visual Assist augments Visual Studio to understand such languages and syntax. Be equipped to work with specialized languages such as Unreal Engine code, shader files, and more with Visual Assist!

Convenient development

Simplify your work: Avoid unnecessary typing with context-aware prompts and suggestions. Instantly find and jump to the exact section of code you need. Skip the clicks and dialogs with automated refactoring and debugging tools.

Visual Assist is designed to make coding faster and easier over Visual Studio’s native tools. Code with fewer interruptions with unmatched performance and accuracy.

Organized workflow

Visual Assist’s unique code views and navigation allow you to quickly understand and reorganize large or complex solutions and projects. Features such as VA Outline and View are reimagined versions of the default UI that give a more organized development process.

It provides a high-level code view embedded with context-aware action. Quickly orient yourself on unfamiliar code with an all-in-one, hierarchical view for navigating by file or symbol.

All-in-one productivity toolkit

Code and Project Navigations

Move and find where you need to be with ease—to any file, method, symbol, or reference in your projects and solutions. Get anywhere from anywhere, instantaneously.

Refactoring

Improve the readability or extend your code base in a few steps. Make many small changes methodically without altering the code's external behavior.

Code Generation

Use templates to quickly build up projects and context-aware suggestions to generate code in a breeze.

Coding Assistance

Feel free to keep typing. Visual Assist suggests completions only if they save you loads of typing time, and it quietly fixes small mistakes you leave behind.

Code Understanding

Make sense of complex code. Whether it’s someone else’s source code or a project you have not opened in a long time.

Special Development

Never go without your trusted features. Visual Assist adds support for those special languages and development environments such as bespoke Unreal code or shader file syntax.

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Latest Visual Assist Update:
VA 2024.2

Visual Assist 2024.2 squeezes every bit of performance for faster initial parsing and solution loading times. Also comes with key bug fixes for some key functionality such as Copilot compatibility and C# coloring.

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Develop games faster & easier in Visual Studio C++

Go beyond the limitations of Visual Studio with Visual Assist’s tailored features and support for Unreal Engine 4 & 5. Experience context-aware suggestions, snappy performance, and minimal loading time even in large game projects.

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Read what our users say about us

Mark T.

Senior Software Engineer

"If I lose my hands I could type with my mouth. Take my VA and I'm done."

It doesn't write the code for me, but it provides the tools for me to write it faster and better. I'm getting to really like the VA Code Inspection and the Extract Method really helps.

2022

Ryan V.

Game Director

"Visual Assist is absolutely essential."

Visual Assist is absolutely needed for professional programming in Visual Studio… The time saved through the use of these very basic things is quite incalculable to the point where there's just no reason for anyone to ever use Visual Studio without Visual Assist.

2022

Anon.

Enterprise Banking Developer

"Great software to code fast!"

I think VA does its core job best! Refactoring of code and which helps me tremendously with my projects. I can code faster and deliver faster. I think I am so addicted to the software that I cannot do without it even one day! And thats true!

2022

Anon.

Unreal Engine Developer

"Visual Assist is an absolute essential when it comes to working with large code bases."

Visual Assist drastically improves upon the built-in Intellisense system provided in Visual Studio. When using Visual Assist, I find that I spend much less time combing through Unreal Engine code as well as my own. The 'Search for Symbol' feature also allows filtering out engine code in order to quickly find symbols within my own code.

2022

Victor I.

C++ Developer

"Good performance on large projects, handy for everyday workflow."

The most performant solution among several alternatives I've tried on a large project.

2022

Saman K.

Animation Artist

"A real assistant."

Fewer errors, less googling, and less confusion. It provides what I expect from a modern IntelliSense.

2022