Tips and Tricks

Eliminating Code Smells with Visual Assist Code Inspection [Webinar Recap]

Learn how to enforce coding standards, avoid common coding errors, and improve your code’s overall readability and maintainability with Visual Assist’s code inspections. Whether you are a seasoned developer or just starting, this webinar will provide you with the knowledge and skills you need to improve your code quality. Join us to discover the benefits of Visual Assist’s code…
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Build Announcements

Visual Assist 2023.1 released

The first update to Visual Assist for 2023 is here. This update features an extensive list of improvements and bug fixes for a variety of users. And if you haven’t, download the latest release here. We hope you find them useful!  Improved parser auto type deduction…
News

Visual Assist 2022 Year End Summary

Another year is once again coming to a close and with it comes a slew of changes to our favorite Visual Studio plugin. Visual Assist has had four releases this year—all filled with useful tweaks, bug fixes, and optimizations but here are the most important updates you need to know (in no particular order). Visual Assist core parser behavior updated. While generally a staple change, new features…
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Build Announcements

Visual Assist 2022.4 now available

The fourth update to Visual Assist 2022 is here! This release updates some core Visual Assist behaviors, adds a key C++ language feature, and adds support for external configuration files. The release also continues initiatives on shader code from the previous release. If…
Tips and Tricks

The Ideal Visual Studio Companions

If you’re using Visual Assist, then you realize that some areas in Visual Studio need extra functionality and support. Extensions provide users quick solutions to make their IDEs perform better in a specific area like adding markdown support, getting better code analysis, and more. This is a very effective method to streamline your workflow and increase your productivity. But if you find…
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Build Announcements

Visual Assist 2022.3 now available

Visual Assist 2022.3 is out and brings some exciting news for those working with graphics shaders! It also adds a pair of code inspection checks, as well as a new navigation option for Open File in Solution. Visual Assist HLSL support High-level shader language (HLSL), while vaguely similar to C in syntax, is a distinct language and thus most native Visual Studio features may behave…
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