Build Announcements

Visual Assist build 2102 makes it three builds in four weeks, which is an unwanted record  for us. Microsoft prompted the last build because they issued Visual Studio “15” Preview 2 without notice, which deprecated our prior build. Build 2102 is our doing; it fixes two minor regressions in builds 2097 and 2098. Visual Assist build 2102 reverts an attempt to fix some kerning…

Visual Assist build 2094 fixes only one bug of significance—sort of. The bug is actually in Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 and the “fix” in Visual Assist is to work around the bug. If you install Visual Studio 2015 Update 2, you need Visual Assist build 2094. If you use any other IDE, build 2094 offers very little. The workaround in Visual Assist is a simple one. VA Snippets…

Visual Assist build 2086 arrives less than a month after build 2083, in time for the holidays. If all goes well, this will be our last build of 2015. The most noteworthy change in build 2086 is a reorganized options dialog. The mechanics of the dialog haven’t changed and the individual settings remain; we simply arranged the settings into more logical groups. We launched the original…

Visual Assist build 2074 fixes two bugs, critical for some users, discovered shortly after the release of build 2073. One fix resolves a conflict with Windows Driver Kit (WDK) 10 that prevented files from being added to solutions. The second fix lets Visual Assist recognize extension-less headers in UNC paths, e.g. \\server\path\path\header. Build 2074 is required if you have Windows Driver Kit…