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Visual Assist build 2341.2 is available

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August 11, 2019
The last build of Visual Assist, i.e. build 2341, introduced a bug for users of Microsoft Visual Studio 2019. If you use Microsoft’s newest IDE and installed build 2341, download and install build 2341.2. Build 2341.2 requires software maintenance through 2019.08.05. Check out the complete list ofwhat’s new in build 2341.2, ordownloadits installer. Click to share on…
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Visual Assist build 2341 is available

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July 17, 2019
The steady stream of functional and quality improvements to Visual Assist continues despite the recent hiccups with new purchasing and licensing systems. (Those systems are being ironed out.) Visual Assist build 2341 improves one of its earliest features—enhanced…
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Visual Assist build 2331 is available

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May 1, 2019
Extensibility has long been a strength of Microsoft Visual Studio, but extending the IDE too greatly can impede its startup. Thus, many developers are familiar with Visual Studio’s yellow status message that suggests an extension is likely causing slow startup. To…
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Visual Assist build 2324 is available

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March 10, 2019
Microsoft’s recent spate of builds of Visual Studio 2019 is driving the recent succession of builds of Visual Assist. Build 2324 is no exception. It’s only feature of note is support for Visual Studio 2019 RC. If, for some reason, you are still using Visual Studio 2019 Preview 1-3, Visual Assist build 2324 will install to your IDE, but know that Visual Assist is no longer…
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Build Announcements

Visual Assist build 2302 is available

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January 24, 2019
Honestly, the title of this post should be “Visual Assist build 2302 has been available for a long time”. I have been lax in writing. Fortunately, if you enable notifications of new builds in the options dialog of Visual Assist, you would have discovered build…
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Visual Assist build 2291 is available

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October 1, 2018
Visual Assist build 2291 is a minor release that fine tunes several, well-loved features–ones that seem never to be finished. Find References (Shift+Alt+F) in Visual Assist is the big brother of the like-named command in Visual Studio. (At one time, Visual Assist provided the only version.) The results window of the Visual Assist command has long allowed collapsing of project and file nodes, but…
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Visual Assist build 2283.2 is available

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August 7, 2018
We strive to release only high-quality builds of Visual Assist, but this latest round required a few attempts to get right. Fortunately, build 2283.2 is worth the wait. It has several, oft-requested improvements. The dialog for Open File in Solution (Shift+Alt+O), improved…
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Visual Assist build 2270 is available

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May 17, 2018
Exhibiting at the Game Developer Conference (GDC) in March gave us the rare opportunity to interact—face to face—with a lot of Visual Assist users. Those who visited our booth picked up tips and swag, and left behind terrific feedback. The interactions gave us a better…
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Visual Assist build 2258 is available

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March 7, 2018
Visual Assist build 2258 is the first of the new calendar year and evidence of a return to normalcy at Whole Tomato. Last year’s dealing with bugs in the Fall Creators Update was an unwelcome distraction. Long-time users of Visual Assist know that Open File in Solution (OFIS) has been a mainstay of Visual Assist since the product’s inception. Yet, there seems always room for…
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