Tips and Tricks

AI for Development: What Do We Expect?

Everyone’s talking about AI. What do we here at Visual Assist expect? It’s clear it’s incredibly relevant – debate on that ship has sailed – but it’s hyped. We take a brief non-hyped look at where we think things will go. An AI-generated image built at simplified.com with the prompt ‘A laptop with an AI onscreen’. Impressive it’s possible, but equally it has a long…
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Visual Assist and ARM

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…
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Visual Studio 2022 Support!

Hello! We have very good news today. We just released Visual Assist 2021.5 and it has our official support for the Visual Studio 2022 release. This blog could be as short as that sentence, but I’d like to write a bit more about our support and how we got here.
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Visual Assist 2021.4 is released! (And notes on Visual Studio 2022)

We are pleased to have just released Visual Assist 2021.4. VAX uses a rolling release mechanism, so it will be a couple of weeks until VAX notifies you in-product and a couple more before it’s available on the Visual Studio store, but you can download Visual Assist 2021.4 today from our website. VAX 2021.4 is a quality-focused release. Our last release, 2021.3, was mostly focused on…
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Technical Deep Dive: Reducing Memory Consumption in Visual Assist build 2393

November 2020’s release of Visual Assist had some significant memory usage improvements, great for those with large projects. Here’s how we did it. Written by David Millington (Product Manager), Goran Mitrovic (Senior Software Engineer) and Christopher Gardner (Engineering Lead) Visual Assist is an extension which lives inside Visual Studio, and Visual Studio is a 32-bit…
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License and Website Changes for Visual Assist

You’ve spoken, and we’ve listened! Our recent website and license migration failed to deliver the high quality experience you deserve. Recently, Whole Tomato migrated our website to a new backend technology and a much needed new license technology for Visual…