Tips and Tricks

Ensuring Code Quality: Why Every C++ Developer Needs Unit Tests

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October 31, 2023
Modern programming languages evolve and are continuously refined even further with each new update. During these incremental stages of development, components such as compilers, IDEs, libraries, their units, their components, and tools undergo changes. Furthermore, there are also rapid changes in operating systems and hardware systems. This means that if you are developing applications…
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Tips and TricksWebinar Recap

Summer Codefest: Lambdas go Baa! [Recap]

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August 21, 2023
Webinar overview:  This presentation by product manager, David Millington, talks about the convenient way to define an anonymous function object added in C++11. This topic was chosen because while it’s extremely useful, the data we see is that there tend to be two groups of C++ developers: those who use them extensively, and those who barely use them. When to use lambdas: The main benefits…
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Build Announcements

Visual Assist 2023.4 now released

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August 17, 2023
VA 2023.4 is now published and is now available to download!  This release marks a major milestone in Visual Assist’s history as it starts its official support for Unity engine development. Also in this release: start of support for CUDA development for C/C++ and numerous…
Tips and TricksWebinar Recap

Summer CodeFest: What the Hex? Ports and Adapters Architecture with C++ [Recap]

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August 15, 2023
This session has concluded watch the replay or download the slides below. Common pitfalls when scaling applications When scaling applications, two common pitfalls often arise: spaghetti code and a lack of proper testing. This can occur for various reasons, but one of the most common reasons is the lack of a coding style guide or an overarching design structure. For instance, when starting a…
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Tips and Tricks

Everything you need to know about code inspections

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June 13, 2023
By now you might have heard about Visual Assist’s code inspections—it has been a staple of almost all recent updates and we hosted two webinars discussing it. This article sums it all in an easy to read and convenient way. What are code inspections? Code inspections is a feature in Visual Assist that automatically checks source code for issues and code smells, and suggests the appropriate fix.
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