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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 Here Visual Studio 2022 is in public beta, with some exciting changes – they’re moving to 64-bit! The team at Microsoft has been…
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How to Set Up Visual Assist

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May 17, 2021
Visual Assist is a coding productivity tool for C++ and C# developers. It extends Visual Studio to make the programming experience better by providing tools for understanding code, checking code, and writing code. Some of its benefits include fast navigation, code inspection…
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How To Modernize With Visual Assist Part 2

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April 1, 2021
In the previous article, you read about five popular techniques to improve your projects and apply several Modern C++ patterns. Here’s a list of five more things! We’ll go from the override keyword to nullptr, scoped enums, and more. All techniques are super-easy with Visual Assist! 1. Override Let’s have a look at the following code with a simple class hierarchy: using…
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Technical Deep Dive: Reducing Memory Consumption in Visual Assist build 2393

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December 17, 2020
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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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…
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How to add notes and navigation metadata directly in source code in Visual Studio

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April 14, 2020
Comments in code might not only be some text floating around the functions, variables and classes, but they might contain some extra semantic information. With this improvement, you can navigate through projects much faster or even organize your knowledge. In this blog post, I’ll show you two ways on how to add extra metadata to comments in Visual Studio. Intro Navigating…
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