Unreal Engine is designed to integrate with Visual Studio smoothly. When linked, it enables developers to make code changes in projects quickly and easily. Visual Studio Unreal Engine also helps improve efficiency and overall performance.
Although the Visual Studio is the most extensible IDE on the planet, it cannot cater to all the development needs. Game development is one such instance…
Visual Studio is a great code editor that comes with a lot of features, and it’s one of the most widely used IDE worldwide. However, despite being a powerful IDE, some areas still need improvement. Some Visual Studio extensions and code plugins may significantly…
10 Undeniable Reasons to Love C++ Extensions
April 26, 2022
Visual Studio is by far one of the most advanced IDEs in the world. Being one of the oldest IDEs, it is still the most popular in the C++ community. In fact, a JetBrains survey [1] found that 27 percent of C++ developers prefer Visual Studio over any other IDE–the highest…
GDC You Next Year!
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 out of…
Whole Tomato recently held a webinar for Visual Assist, and it’s about game development! If you’re thinking of doing this as a hobby or as a potential career path, this may serve as a great introduction.
In the presentation, VAX lead developer, Chris Gardner…
Tips for Aspiring Game Developers
February 10, 2022
Have you ever considered becoming a game developer but never knew where or how to start?
In this blog, we’ll talk about a few things you might want to know before you get started in the video game industry.
The video game industry— by the…
Visual Studio 2022 Support!
November 23, 2021
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. Meanwhile I recommend if you’re using VS2022 you download and install 2021.5 now!
Background
Historically…
Visual Assist 2021.4 is released! (And notes on Visual Studio 2022)
November 2, 2021
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…
Visual Studio 2022 preview version 4 support
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…
Unreal Engine ‘Quality Of Life’ in Visual Assist 2021.2
July 15, 2021
The first two releases of Visual Assist this year contain some great Unreal Engine quality-of-life improvements you may want to take advantage of.
While we’ve always announced features in our changelog and release blogs, we’re starting to blog in greater detail about some of what we change — our December blog about reducing memory usage started this — and this time we’ll dig a bit…
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