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Develop games faster & easier in Visual Studio C++

Go beyond the limitations of Visual Studio with Visual Assist’s tailored features and support for Unreal Engine 4 & 5. Experience context-aware suggestions, snappy performance, and minimal loading time even in large game projects.

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Try a fully functional trial of Visual Assist for 30 days. No reinstallation or reconfiguration is required if you purchase.

Turn your vision into reality with tailored support for Unreal Engine

Understand code easily

VA’s parser fully understands the context of Unreal extended code language and adjusts syntax highlighting and indentation accordingly. Annoying tabs, false errors, and unlabeled symbols when declaring UFUNCTIONS and UCLASS are now history.

Get Relevant Hints

Type specifiers rapidly and with less switching to documentation for most U*Macros. If you modify the engine or add new specifiers, Visual Assist will detect and add suggestions for those as well.

Works With Everything Else

Visual Assist reads U*Macro specifiers & we’ve used that to make our features smarter. Goto, Goto Related, Find References, Rename & Change Signature have all been extended to support implicit methods.

Go Beyond Limits

One of the limitations of Visual Studio’s default parser is it struggles in large solutions commonly associated with game development. With Visual Assist, you can code without all the incorrect red squiggles & save memory for other tasks.

Context-Aware Dialogs and Documentation

The documentation for Unreal Engine C++ is often in the code itself. Visual Assist understands Unreal’s extended code language so it will show comments and dialogs from base classes and U*Macro specifiers.

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Visual Assist features

Visual Assist has a number of general C++ features that are also useful for game development.

Open and search files (Shift + Alt + O)

Instead of opening the file explorer, VA lists all the projects in the solution in a single dialog menu. It is powered by a powerful context-aware search function so you can even find associated files by merely typing in a related file or string— an extremely useful feature for game projects.

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Find Symbols (Shift + Alt + S)

Easily sort through thousands of symbols with advanced filtering and sorting: from variables, class, or structs or in a solution. From this dialog, you can copy the symbol, jump to it, or even find all references to it.

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List methods in file (Alt+M)

Navigate the current file from a simple drop-down of classes and methods in it. Filter the list using substrings.

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Implement Virtual methods (Shift + Alt + Q)

Quickly generate method stubs for methods of an interface or virtual methods of a base class in C++ or C#. This shortcut opens the Quick actions and refactoring menu which provides many context-aware options depending on where the caret is or what is highlighted.

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Open corresponding file (Alt + O)

This is usually used to quickly switch between header and implementation files. VA’s version gives you a menu when more than one destination is possible.

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And Many More

Installing Visual Assist

Getting Started with Unreal Engine 4/5

Setting Up Visual Assist for Unreal Engine

Intro to Visual Assist for Game Development

Testimonials

"If I lose my hands I could type with my mouth. Take my VA and I'm done."

It doesn't write the code for me, but it provides the tools for me to write it faster and better. I'm getting to really like the VA Code Inspection and the Extract Method really helps.

2022

"Visual Assist is absolutely essential."

Visual Assist is absolutely needed for professional programming in Visual Studio… The time saved through the use of these very basic things is quite incalculable to the point where there's just no reason for anyone to ever use Visual Studio without Visual Assist.

2022

"Great software to code fast!"

I think VA does its core job best! Refactoring of code and which helps me tremendously with my projects. I can code faster and deliver faster. I think I am so addicted to the software that I cannot do without it even one day! And thats true!

2022

"Visual Assist is an absolute essential when it comes to working with large code bases."

Visual Assist drastically improves upon the built-in Intellisense system provided in Visual Studio. When using Visual Assist, I find that I spend much less time combing through Unreal Engine code as well as my own. The 'Search for Symbol' feature also allows filtering out engine code in order to quickly find symbols within my own code.

2022

"Good performance on large projects, handy for everyday workflow."

The most performant solution among several alternatives I've tried on a large project.

2022

"A real assistant."

Fewer errors, less googling, and less confusion. It provides what I expect from a modern IntelliSense.

2022

"If I lose my hands I could type with my mouth. Take my VA and I'm done."

It doesn't write the code for me, but it provides the tools for me to write it faster and better. I'm getting to really like the VA Code Inspection and the Extract Method really helps.

2022

"Visual Assist is absolutely essential."

Visual Assist is absolutely needed for professional programming in Visual Studio… The time saved through the use of these very basic things is quite incalculable to the point where there's just no reason for anyone to ever use Visual Studio without Visual Assist.

2022

"Great software to code fast!"

I think VA does its core job best! Refactoring of code and which helps me tremendously with my projects. I can code faster and deliver faster. I think I am so addicted to the software that I cannot do without it even one day! And thats true!

2022

"Visual Assist is an absolute essential when it comes to working with large code bases."

Visual Assist drastically improves upon the built-in Intellisense system provided in Visual Studio. When using Visual Assist, I find that I spend much less time combing through Unreal Engine code as well as my own. The 'Search for Symbol' feature also allows filtering out engine code in order to quickly find symbols within my own code.

2022

"Good performance on large projects, handy for everyday workflow."

The most performant solution among several alternatives I've tried on a large project.

2022

"A real assistant."

Fewer errors, less googling, and less confusion. It provides what I expect from a modern IntelliSense.

2022

Great stuff happens all the time.

Visual Assist always has a steady stream of new features valuable to C++ and Unreal Engine developers.

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