News

November 14th update fixes one crash in Visual Studio

By
November 22, 2017
Two bugs in recent updates to Microsoft Windows 10 cause Visual Studio to crash when certain extensions, including Visual Assist, are installed. Microsoft fixed one of the bugs, a broken hook mechanism, in its November 14, 2017, update. All Windows 10 users with Visual Assist should install the November 14 update, available via Windows Update or via stand-alone packages. Download the stand-alone…
Read more
Build Announcements

Visual Assist build 2237 is available

By
October 4, 2017
Visual Assist build 2237 fixes one bug applicable only to users with Unreal Engine 4 (UE4). The fix prevents a hang of Visual Studio that might occur when smart suggestions appear for UPARAM(). If you develop with UE4, download the installer for build 2237. If you don’t develop with UE4, or have no idea what UE4 is, you are welcome to skip the build. Visual Assist build 2237 requires…
Read more
Build Announcements

Visual Assist build 2235 is available

By
September 27, 2017
Two recent, significant additions to Visual Assist—Source Links and Code Inspection—continue to mature in build 2235. The build also provides a valuable set of enhancements and fixes for established features of Visual Assist. Source Links now opens hyperlinks found in…
Build Announcements

Visual Assist build 2231 is available

By
September 1, 2017
Build 2231 provides several small but noteworthy improvements for all users of Visual Assist, and one extraordinary improvement for developers who use also Unreal Engine 4 (UE4). Visual Assist typically parses all files in a solution, and the system headers it includes, the…
Build Announcements

Visual Assist build 2223 is available

By
June 23, 2017
This post is a 2-for-1 build announcement: 2219 and 2223. Build 2219 made some nice improvements to Visual Assist but a day after release of the build, several bugs were discovered in it. Build 2223 is the bug-fix build. This announcement for build 2223 includes the improvements of build 2219. Source Links, previously a standalone extension available only in the Visual Studio gallery, is now…
Read more
Build Announcements

Visual Assist build 2217 is available

By
April 28, 2017
Build 2217 follows an earlier hiatus in builds and puts us back on track to issue six or seven builds this year. Whereas we started the year introducing a big feature, Code Inspection,  build 2217 is primarily a bug-fix build. Many of the fixes, as you can imagine…
Build Announcements

Visual Assist build 2212 is available

By
March 28, 2017
Visual Assist build 2212 follows build 2210 with an important fix for Unreal Engine 4 (UE4) developers—separation of UE4 and UE3 support. Code Inspection, a new feature in Visual Assist, was introduced in build 2210. If you did not get a chance to download 2210, you…
Build Announcements

Visual Assist build 2210 is available

By
March 14, 2017
After a long hiatus between builds, the first of year 2017 is now available. Visual Assist build 2210 include two big improvements: support for Visual Studio 2017 and Code Inspection. Visual Assist build 2210 supports the release version of Visual Studio 2017. If you used Visual Assist in a release candidate of the IDE, please upgrade to build 2210. Code Inspection is a new feature in Visual…
Read more
%d