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Visual Studio 2022 preview version 4 support

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September 16, 2021
Just a quick note to let you know that we are aware of a blocking issue while using the latest version of VA in Preview 4. We offered initial beta support for 3.x, however we do not recommend installing Visual Assist on the latest preview as the hangs will render the IDE unusable. We’re working on it and hope to have an update out soon. Even though each release offers new challenges and…
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Busy Busy Busy!

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June 21, 2021
Are you busy? I know we are. Our development team has been taking a hard look at what’s going on in the development landscape, and I thought we could share a few things that we’ve got going on behind the scenes: Visual Studio 2022 Public Preview is…
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How to Set Up Visual Assist

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May 17, 2021
Visual Assist is a coding productivity tool for C++ and C# developers. It extends Visual Studio to make the programming experience better by providing tools for understanding code, checking code, and writing code. Some of its benefits include fast navigation, code inspection and modernization, many refactorings, code correction, Unreal Engine 4 support (for which it is famous), and…
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How to Modernize C++ Code with Visual Assist in Five Easy Steps

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March 11, 2021
You probably know that over time our projects seem to get old and legacy. Code written now might look suspicious five years later. With the standardization of C++11 in 2011, developers coined the term Modern C++. In this article (and the next one) we’ll take a look at some techniques you might apply to get nicer code and be closer to the best feature that recent versions of C++…
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Prevent debugger from stepping into unwanted functions in Visual Studio

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August 18, 2020
When you’re in a debugging session, sometimes the debugger can visit a lot of trivial functions or code from third-party libraries. In Visual Studio and also in Visual Assist, there are ways to filter out call stack events so that you can focus just on the critical code path. Read on to find out how. Background As you may already know, step into, step over, and step out…
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