Tips and Tricks

GDC You Next Year!

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April 7, 2022
For those of you that have been longtime GDC attendees, speakers, or lowly exhibitors, this year may have taken you back to years past. Smaller crowd (the line would tell you otherwise), More intimate sessions, and cool swag! If you didn’t make it out, be sure to check out the vault for online recaps. I wanted to send out a few takeaways from our group: The biggest thing we get…
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Visual Studio 2022 preview version 4 support

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September 16, 2021
Just a quick note to let you know that we are aware of a blocking issue while using the latest version of VA in Preview 4. We offered initial beta support for 3.x, however we do not recommend installing Visual Assist on the latest preview as the hangs will render the IDE…
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Busy Busy Busy!

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June 21, 2021
Are you busy? I know we are. Our development team has been taking a hard look at what’s going on in the development landscape, and I thought we could share a few things that we’ve got going on behind the scenes: Visual Studio 2022 Public Preview is…
Build Announcements

Visual Assist Build 2393 is Here!

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November 20, 2020
We’re really making an effort to keep blogs more instructional or industry related, but man o’ man is this release worth a few lines. Our team has been working behind the scenes for much of the year on performance improvements. And sure, we could’ve just done a few things here and there over time to make it feel like we were consistently improving (which we are), but with this…
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Going Remote or Crazy?

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June 2, 2020
If you’re like most, you’re reading this from the comfort (hopefully) of your home office. We hope whatever you’re doing, you’re being safe and smart about it. Our staff lucked out as most were already working from home when all this started. So the…
Build Announcements

Visual Assist Build 2375

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May 20, 2020
NEW Added Code Inspection for modernize-deprecrated-headers clang checker. Some headers from C library were deprecated in C++ and are no longer welcome in C++ codebases. This check replaces C standard library headers with their C++ alternatives and removes redundant…
Build Announcements

Visual Assist Build 2366 is Available!

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March 6, 2020
Build 2366 is all about keeping the lights on and letting you code faster and more effectively. While the release includes tons of bug fixes, you’ll find that we’ve added a few new items as well. In keeping with the latest and greatest, we’ve updated to LLVM/Clang 9.0.1. Other notable items include per monitor DPI awareness, Indentation fix for UE4 RIGVM_METHOD() and…
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Tools for Tuesday

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February 18, 2020
While we hope Visual Assist is your favorite dev tool, we know we can’t (and won’t) do everything for you. As we continue developing solutions, we’ll also showcase tools or tips for other problems you may face in other parts of development. This week…
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Getting Started with UE4 and Visual Assist

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December 9, 2019
Whether you’re new to Visual Assist and UE4 or a seasoned vet, we thought you might appreciate a little more insight into what you can expect and how to get started. Thanks to our resident UE4 wizards for putting this together. 1. Install Visual Assist Exit all instances of Visual Studio. Run the .exe installer you downloaded. Select the IDE(s) you want to install…
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