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12 Helpful Tips For Visual Studio Productivity

Visual Studio provides a lot of useful tools to help programmers greatly simplify the software development process. In this article, we will learn 12 helpful tips for increasing Visual Studio productivity that you may not know about, but that will be very useful for you. #1 Navigation through the elements of the project In a large project, there are a lot of classes and methods…
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10 Undeniable Reasons to Love C++ Extensions

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…
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How To Modernize With Visual Assist Part 2

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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