Tips and Tricks

Why Is QA Testing Essential?

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February 8, 2023
Quality assurance (QA) testing is a crucial step in the game development process that ensures the delivery of a high-quality and bug-free game. QA testing helps to identify and resolve issues before the game is released to the public. It is a simple practice that saves time and resources in the long run. We will explore what is QA testing‘s importance in game development in this…
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Build Announcements

Visual Assist enters G2 Awards as High Performer

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January 2, 2023
We are glad to announce that in the second quarter since listing, the popular Whole Tomato Visual Assist plugin for Visual Studio broke into the G2 Software Awards as the top scorer in the static code analysis segment. Visual Assist received good reviews from users and high scores in various ratings. Click here to read Visual Assist reviews on G2. What is a High Performer and How does G2 Determine…
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News

Visual Assist 2022 Year End Summary

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December 29, 2022
Another year is once again coming to a close and with it comes a slew of changes to our favorite Visual Studio plugin. Visual Assist has had four releases this year—all filled with useful tweaks, bug fixes, and optimizations but here are the most important updates you need…
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Visual Assist and ARM

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November 14, 2022
On Tuesday, Microsoft announced that Visual Studio now officially runs on Windows ARM. What does this mean for Visual Assist? Visual Assist is a native plugin, so compiled for either 32-bit or 64-bit Intel depending on which version of Visual Studio you’re using. If you run the normal version of Visual Studio, this is exactly what you need. But if you run the ARM version, you would need an ARM…
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Build Announcements

Visual Assist 2022.4 now available

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November 9, 2022
The fourth update to Visual Assist 2022 is here! This release updates some core Visual Assist behaviors, adds a key C++ language feature, and adds support for external configuration files. The release also continues initiatives on shader code from the previous release. If…
Tips and Tricks

The Ideal Visual Studio Companions

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September 7, 2022
If you’re using Visual Assist, then you realize that some areas in Visual Studio need extra functionality and support. Extensions provide users quick solutions to make their IDEs perform better in a specific area like adding markdown support, getting better code analysis…
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How much time and money does Visual Assist save?

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September 2, 2022
Visual Assist is one of the most powerful and intelligent coding assistance solutions for Visual Studio C/C++, but how much time (or money) do development teams save with such a lightweight add-on? In this blog post, we try to guesstimate the value of Visual Assist as a productivity and time-saving tool. Why do developers need Visual Assist? Before we dive into the numbers, we first need to…
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