Many developers have started using Unreal Engine to achieve their expected level of visual realism. The reason is the growing popularity of video games. The ever-increasing power of modern game engines has also led many people in gaming industries to strive for a more visually impressive and immersive gaming experience. In this article, we will focus on how successful people make the…
The Best Kept Secrets About C++ Extensions
May 5, 2022
While you are writing software, it is very important to focus on the logic of the code, its efficiency and performance, and the algorithms used. At the same time, the code should be understandable, readable, and easily editable. There are special tools that allow you to…
Unreal Engine is designed to integrate with Visual Studio smoothly. When linked, it enables developers to make code changes to projects quickly and easily. Visual Studio’s support for Unreal Engine also helps improve efficiency and overall performance.
Although…
Visual Studio is a great code editor that comes with a lot of features, and it’s one of the most widely used IDE worldwide. However, despite being a powerful IDE, some areas still need improvement. Some Visual Studio extensions and code plugins may significantly impact developers’ productivity, and Visual Assist is one of them. Visual Assist always provides swift support for new…
10 Undeniable Reasons to Love C++ Extensions
April 26, 2022
Visual Studio is by far one of the most advanced IDEs in the world. Being one of the oldest IDEs, it is still the most popular in the C++ community. In fact, a JetBrains survey [1] found that 27 percent of C++ developers prefer Visual Studio over any other IDE–the highest…
GDC You Next Year!
April 7, 2022
For those of you that have been longtime GDC attendees, speakers, or lowly exhibitors, this year may have taken you back to years past. Smaller crowd (the line would tell you otherwise), More intimate sessions, and cool swag! If you didn’t make it out, be sure to check…
Whole Tomato recently held a webinar for Visual Assist, and it’s about game development! If you’re thinking of doing this as a hobby or as a potential career path, this may serve as a great introduction. In the presentation, VAX lead developer, Chris Gardner, takes you through the steps of coding a modified powerup into a shooter game using Visual Studio and the Unreal…
Tips for Aspiring Game Developers
February 10, 2022
Have you ever considered becoming a game developer but never knew where or how to start? In this blog, we’ll talk about a few things you might want to know before you get started in the video game industry. The video game industry— by the…
Visual Studio 2022 Support!
November 23, 2021
Hello! We have very good news today. We just released Visual Assist 2021.5 and it has our official support for the Visual Studio 2022 release. This blog could be as short as that sentence, but I’d like to write a bit more about our support and how we got here.
We are pleased to have just released Visual Assist 2021.4. VAX uses a rolling release mechanism, so it will be a couple of weeks until VAX notifies you in-product and a couple more before it’s available on the Visual Studio store, but you can download Visual Assist 2021.4 today from our website. VAX 2021.4 is a quality-focused release. Our last release, 2021.3, was mostly focused on…
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