Tips and Tricks

Why You Should Turn On Code Inspections in Visual Assist

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October 30, 2026
Most people use Visual Assist to get around a codebase and refactor safely. But there’s a whole set of checks and one-click fixes, just one checkbox away, that most users don’t know about—Code Inspections. Code Inspections looks over your code while you work and points out anything that could cause trouble later. Some checks make code easier to read, some bring it up to modern C++…
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Semiconductor Equipment Software: The C++ Stack Behind Control, Vision, and the Fab Host

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August 19, 2026
The person who understood the code is gone An all too familiar scene: Someone new takes over a legacy sensor-testing system, but the handover from the previous engineer was already over. Roger Swann’s experience as a director for an electronics and manufacturing company made such an impression we published a case study about it earlier this month. But we’re not stopping there.
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AI Coding Assistants for Large C++ Codebases: What Works, What Breaks, and How to Split the Work

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July 13, 2026
AI Coding Assistants for Large C++ Codebases: What Works, What Breaks, and How to Split the Work AI tools are everywhere. They’re in your phone, your car, your office, and it even made its way into software development. It’s being pushed as a do-it-all solution for coding, and in many cases it does solve, or the very least,  speeds up the busywork. The benefit is real and it’s…
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Build Announcements

Visual Assist 2026.4 release post

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June 30, 2026
The first thing you do with Visual Assist is install it. The first thing you do with it on a project is wait for it to parse. VA 2026.4 makes both smoother. Download it now. This is a smaller build between larger ones — a few bigger efforts are running in parallel, shaped…
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C++26 is here. Your tooling shouldn't be the bottleneck.

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June 17, 2026
To all C++ devs: If you haven’t heard C++26 is official. WG21 signed it off in March, and the pieces are already showing up in compiler trunk: static reflection, contracts, a new async model, a real push on memory safety. The language didn’t just pick up a few features. Its surface area grew, and the code your team writes against it will grow right along with it. Here’s the part…
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