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What's New in Visual Assist 2024—Featuring lightning fast parser performance [Webinar]

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February 21, 2024
Webinar overview: In this webinar, we discuss the latest developments in Visual Assist with a focus on the latest release. Get an inside look at what the developers added for VA 2024.1 and what you can expect to be added to the toolset in the upcoming months. . The Visual Assist team showcases the new features and improvements featuring the newly improved parser time for initial project…
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Visual Assist 2023.6 release post

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November 28, 2023
Visual Assist 2023.6 is here and is available to download! This release is filled to the brim with new functionality that improves upon your staple VA features and a new, convenient way to share source code with colleagues. We also have a new code checker, support for two…
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Game Development Showcase: Visual Assist + Cloud Hosted Perforce from Assembla

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September 17, 2023
Game development cycles can get increasingly longer when working with larger projects and teams. Learn how Assembla’s Cloud Hosted Perforce solutions can further speed up your dev cycles by streamlining source control management in Helix Core with tailored support for Unreal Engine. As many of our readers know, Visual Assist is a productivity extension for Visual Studio that provides a set of…
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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…
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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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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…
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C++ Refactoring Tips And Tricks

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February 23, 2023
In the world of software development, features are constantly updated and new functionality is continuously added. Gradually, keeping up with the latest and best coding standards becomes complex. This slows can slow down operations and affect how code is maintained and updated. The act of maintaining and modernizing code is done through a process called code refactoring. In this article, we will…
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