C++ Safety is one of the most important conversations happening in software right now. From industry leaders to government agencies, including recent guidance coming from the U.S. government, there is a renewed call to strengthen memory safety and reduce classes of bugs that have historically plagued C and C++ projects.
But here is the reality: C++ remains one of the most critical languages in the…
Throughout its long lifetime, Visual Assist (VA) has been a top-of-the-line productivity plugin with a performance advantage over Visual Studio and other plugins. Performance and speed has been a bread-and-butter factor for choosing VA—and we’ve doubled down with updates…
Visual Assist 2024.3 release post
May 2, 2024
Another Visual Assist update?! VA 2024.3 is headlined by a dramatic improvement to the performance of Find References. This release also features both a fix and an improvement related to Move Implementation. We also have some key features exiting their beta phase (try them…
See you at San Francisco for GDC 2024!
March 7, 2024
Whole Tomato will be at the Game Developers Conference 2024!
The makers and developers of Visual Assist will make their return to Moscone Center in San Francisco from March 18-22 for GDC 2024! Whole Tomato will be at booth number P1769 sharing space with a sister company, Assembla! Two of the best tools for game development in one booth—efficient!
GDC has always been one of the most awaited…
What's New in Visual Assist 2024—Featuring lightning fast parser performance [Webinar]
February 21, 2024
Webinar overview: In this webinar, we discuss the latest developments in Visual Assist with a focus on the latest release. Get an inside look at what the developers added for VA 2024.1 and what you can expect to be added to the toolset in the upcoming months.
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Another reason to cheer: Visual Assist academic licenses!
December 22, 2023
Great news! The Whole Tomato experience just got even more complete and well-rounded!
The hobbies and recreational activities you do during your early days in school often become the gateway to the skills you’ll develop and use in the real world. It is no surprise, then…
Game development cycles can get increasingly longer when working with larger projects and teams. Learn how Assembla’s Cloud Hosted Perforce solutions can further speed up your dev cycles by streamlining source control management in Helix Core with tailored support for Unreal Engine.
As many of our readers know, Visual Assist is a productivity extension for Visual Studio that provides a set of…
CodeFest happened on August 17th, 2023. Registration is not available now. Stay tuned and find out when next CodeFest begins!
Get ready to unwind with Whole Tomato at our first Summer C++ CodeFest! Join us for two weeks of laid-back learning, collaboration, and coding…
Visual Assist 2022 Year End Summary
December 29, 2022
Another year is once again coming to a close and with it comes a slew of changes to our favorite Visual Studio plugin. Visual Assist has had four releases this year—all filled with useful tweaks, bug fixes, and optimizations but here are the most important updates you need…
Recap: What’s New in Visual Assist 2022
June 16, 2022
Did you miss the What’s New in Visual Assist 2022 webinar? We’ve got you covered.
The webinar and this recap blog are part of ongoing efforts to share more information around the latest Visual Assist updates and developments. Usually we publish what’s new in a bulletin, but we haven’t often had a webinar where we share what’s new and have live questions and answers. So we had…
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