Tips and Tricks

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, you’ll hear from our friends at Ranorex: How to continue to test in Visual Studio in a post Coded UI…
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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…
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Developer Showcase: Visual Assist in Action

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December 5, 2019
If you follow our blog, you’ve seen the features that our team is putting in place and likely felt their impact in your development. Instead of hearing more of the same, we thought we would share thoughts from one of our users. Meet Distalsoft, two brothers, one who can’t stop gaming and one with ideas. We’re not sure which one wrote this post, but either way check them out when…
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Filter using logical "or"

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December 9, 2015
Many of the dialogs and drop-downs of Visual Assist allow efficient lookups via filtering. For example, filtering within Open File in Solution—a dialog with all files in a solution—lets one find a file quickly if only portions of a name are known. This means one can find veryLongFilenameInProjectTomato.cpp if he knows only “long” and “toma”. Filtering takes…
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Tools to understand new code: Enhanced Syntax Coloring

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January 31, 2015
In my previous posts as guest contributor to this blog, I showed you how to use Go-To tools and different Find commands in Visual Assist. In this post, I describe improvements to syntax coloring available in Visual Assist, then close with a description of a tool window that combines several functions of the IDE and Visual Assist. As in my previous posts, I will use Irrlicht Engine as my…
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