Reflection landed in C++26 last year, GCC trunk and the Bloomberg-maintained Clang fork already implement most of it. Many conference talks is making it sound like it’s the most important thing to happen to the language in a generation. If you ship production C++ on MSVC, the more useful question is what reflection actually changes about the code you write, and when you’ll be able to…
If you’ve been following Visual Assist for a while, you might have noticed something a little different about the last few releases. Alongside the navigation improvements, refactoring updates, and parser optimizations, there’s a quieter but important thread…
It’s been roughly three years since AI tools and large language models (LLMs) hit the mainstream in a real, unavoidable way. In that time, people have put them to work writing emails, summarizing legal documents, generating marketing copy, composing music, tutoring…
Visual Assist knows your time is valuable and it’s better spent on coding or thinking. When you encounter a question about Visual Studio C++ or Visual Assist, it’s important to quickly get that answer so you can stay locked in.
Whether it’s on how a feature works, how to configure it for your setup, or what your VA license covers — the last thing you want is to dig through pages of…
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…
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 out!). Lastly, performance for C# should be better than ever with key fixes rolling out in this release.
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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…
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, that the tools and machines you use when starting out as a complete novice influence how you grow from a curious enthusiast…
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