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
TL;DR  As applications grow in size, poor design decisions can lead to increasing complexity, maintenance problems and bottlenecks in testing. In this Summer CodeFest session, we will learn how Hexagonal (Ports and Adapters) Architecture can help developers to build more scalable, maintainable and testable C++ applications by separating the business logic from the implementation details.
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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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AI for Development: What Do We Expect?

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May 24, 2023
TLDR AI already helps developers write, debug and optimize code, but cloud-based tools continue to raise concerns about privacy, cost and source code security. As AI models become more efficient, it should become more and more practical to have locally hosted solutions…
Build Announcements

Visual Assist 2023.2 released

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May 17, 2023
The second update to Visual Assist in 2023 is here. This update features an extensive series of upgrades to code inspections, shader extension support, and a number of quality fixes to the IDE. Download the latest version of Visual Assist now. Greatly expanded code inspections with over 100 new Clang Tidy checks The biggest item in this release is the added support for all code checks available…
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