Search for “C++26 memory safety” and the results won’t agree with each other. One post declares C++ finally memory-safe. The next, titled something like “C++26 memory features won’t save you,” says nothing important changed.
In reality, no one serious would believe either extreme. Everyone writing C++ knows the language isn’t memory-safe; that’s the…
AI Coding Assistants for Large C++ Codebases: What Works, What Breaks, and How to Split the Work
July 13, 2026
AI Coding Assistants for Large C++ Codebases: What Works, What Breaks, and How to Split the Work
AI tools are everywhere. They’re in your phone, your car, your office, and it even made its way into software development. It’s being pushed as a do-it-all solution…
Visual Assist 2026.4 release post
June 30, 2026
The first thing you do with Visual Assist is install it. The first thing you do with it on a project is wait for it to parse. VA 2026.4 makes both smoother. Download it now.
This is a smaller build between larger ones — a few bigger efforts are running in parallel, shaped…
You cloned the repo on your first morning in your new team’s project. Twenty minutes later you’re looking at a solution with four hundred projects, a build that throws errors on a clean checkout, and a ticket that says a number is wrong on one screen. You don’t know where that screen is—in fact, you don’t know where anything lives. And that’s absolutely normal. But…
C++26 is here. Your tooling shouldn't be the bottleneck.
June 17, 2026
To all C++ devs: If you haven’t heard C++26 is official.
WG21 signed it off in March, and the pieces are already showing up in compiler trunk: static reflection, contracts, a new async model, a real push on memory safety. The language didn’t just pick up a few…
AI coding tools are now part of the conversation in almost every software organization. Sometimes the push comes from developers experimenting on their own. Sometimes it comes from management asking teams to ship faster without increasing headcount. Either way, the…
How to Set Up a Fully Local AI in Visual Studio
May 19, 2026
VA Intelligence is Visual Assist’s local AI feature. It runs Gemma3 on your GPU through Ollama, both bundled and managed by Visual Assist itself. No API keys, no cloud round-trip, no telemetry pipeline waiting to be audited by your security team.
By the end of this guide you’ll have two features wired up inside Visual Studio: Explain with AI and Change Code with AI. If you’ve…
The moment the project opens
Welcome gamer! You’re excited to start coding games so you set up your Unreal Engine and finally got the source linked to your project… Once it opens you’re greeted with a sample project. It’s huge. And why are there red…
Reflection landed in C++26 last year, GCC trunk and the Bloomberg-maintained Clang fork already implement most of it. Many conference talks is making it sound like it’s the most important thing to happen to the language in a generation. If you ship production C++ on…
If you’ve been following Visual Assist for a while, you might have noticed something a little different about the last few releases. Alongside the navigation improvements, refactoring updates, and parser optimizations, there’s a quieter but important thread running through it all: VA Intelligence.
We introduced Explain with AI a few releases back, and with 2026.3 we just shipped Change…
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