We are pleased to have just released Visual Assist 2021.4. VAX uses a rolling release mechanism, so it will be a couple of weeks until VAX notifies you in-product and a couple more before it’s available on the Visual Studio store, but you can download Visual Assist 2021.4 today from our website. VAX 2021.4 is a quality-focused release. Our last release, 2021.3, was mostly focused on…
Visual Studio 2022 preview version 4 support
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…
Visual Assist support for Visual Studio 2022 Previews!
August 12, 2021
There’s a lot of interest in the developer community about the new version of Visual Studio, which is in preview currently. This week we released Visual Assist 2021.3 (build 2420), and Visual Assist includes beta support for the Visual Studio 2022…
The first two releases of Visual Assist this year contain some great Unreal Engine quality-of-life improvements you may want to take advantage of. While we’ve always announced features in our changelog and release blogs, we’re starting to blog in greater detail about some of what we change — our December blog about reducing memory usage started this — and this time we’ll dig a bit…
Busy Busy Busy!
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…
How to Set Up Visual Assist
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…
Bartlomiej Filipek is a software developer from the Polish city of Cracow. Bartek, as he prefers to be called, started coding when he was 14 years old, after reading “C++ in 24h”, and got his first real programming job in 2007. Bartek broad professional experience includes Native Windows Desktop Apps, OpenGL, Gamedev, BioFeedback games, .NET, large-scale app development, flight planning…
How To Modernize With Visual Assist Part 2
April 1, 2021
In the previous article, you read about five popular techniques to improve your projects and apply several Modern C++ patterns. Here’s a list of five more things! We’ll go from the override keyword to nullptr, scoped enums, and more. All techniques are super-easy…
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…
TL;DR
Clang-tidy is a C++ static analysis tool built on Clang that helps developers detect bugs, enforce coding standards, and modernize code. It can identify issues like inefficient patterns, outdated syntax, and potential errors, and even apply automatic fixes in some cases.
While powerful, clang-tidy can sometimes produce incorrect or incomplete fixes, so manual review is still essential. It…
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