If you follow news from Whole Tomato, you know that Microsoft released several builds of Windows 10 with bugs that caused Visual Studio to crash when Visual Assist was installed. More recently, Microsoft introduced a change in Visual Studio 2017 15.5 that causes the Code Inspection feature of Visual Assist to crash.
If you use Visual Studio 2017 and updated to 15.5, disable Code Inspection in the options dialog of Visual Assist. The next build of Visual Assist will include a fix that will let you re-enable the feature.
If you run Windows 10 Version 1709 (Fall Creators Update), your installation of Windows 10 must be up to date in order to use Visual Assist. Microsoft’s December 12th update to OS Build 16299.125 includes a required fix for a CreateWindowEx() failure.
If you run Windows 10 Version 1703 and deferred installation of the Fall Creators Update, you are free to un-pause Windows Update and upgrade to 1709.
If you prefer to remain with Windows 10 Version 1703, you must run at least OS Build 15063.729, released November 22nd, in order to have a required fix for a broken hook mechanism.
Thank you for your patience as we grapple with the bugs and crashes.
If all goes well, the next post in this blog will simply announce a new build of Visual Assist.
