Build Announcements

Visual Assist 2022.2 is here

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May 12, 2022
Visual Assist 2022.2 has just been released! We have a well-rounded update this time— a number of new features as well as some much needed fixes. Unreal Engine 5 Support The biggest announcement in this release is the the start of official regression and other testing related to Unreal Engine 5. This also comes with some modifications to the IDE UI to make it apparent that our…
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Tips and Tricks

The Most Innovative Things Happening With Visual Studio Unreal Engine

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May 3, 2022
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 the most extensible IDE on the planet, it cannot cater to all development needs. Game development is one such…
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Tips and Tricks

10 Undeniable Reasons to Love C++ Extensions

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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…
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Recap: Improving your game development experience (with VAX lead dev)

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March 3, 2022
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…
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Tips and Tricks

How to Set Up Visual Assist

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May 17, 2021
Visual Assist is a coding productivity tool for C++ and C# developers. It extends Visual Studio to make the programming experience better by providing tools for understanding code, checking code, and writing code. Some of its benefits include fast navigation…
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How to Modernize C++ Code with Visual Assist in Five Easy Steps

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March 11, 2021
You probably know that over time our projects seem to get old and legacy. Code written now might look suspicious five years later. With the standardization of C++11 in 2011, developers coined the term Modern C++. In this article (and the next one) we’ll take a look at some techniques you might apply to get nicer code and be closer to the best feature that recent versions of C++…
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