Unreal Engine is designed to integrate with Visual Studio smoothly. When linked, it enables developers to make code changes to projects quickly and easily. Visual Studio’s support for Unreal Engine also helps improve efficiency and overall performance.
Although Visual Studio is the most extensible IDE on the planet, it cannot cater to all development needs. Game development is one such…
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 Assist 2022.1 has arrived
February 4, 2022
It’s a new year for Visual Assist!
This was slightly earlier than expected, but in the interest of making sure that updates and fixes get to you as quickly as possible, we’ve decided on an early release! You can download the latest version of VAX here.
New features
We’ve added a few notable changes in this release. The first one is adding syntax support for C++20’s feature…
Improving Visual Assist: We need your opinion
December 15, 2021
Good day! The Whole Tomato team is looking to improve the Visual Assist experience in other fields, and we are inviting you to join us!
We are currently looking for focus group participants in the financial service sector. Eligible participants include programmers or…
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.
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 2021.4 today from our website.
VAX 2021.4 is a quality-focused release. Our last release, 2021.3, was mostly focused on…
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