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Privacy Policy Updated

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May 25, 2018
We updated our privacy policy per the EU’s General Data Protection Regulations (“GDPR”) which went into effect today, May 25th, 2018. While the GDPR is a European law, we clarified and applied our privacy policy to everyone, independent of location. Our updated privacy policy is more specific with regard to the information we collect, how we use the information, how we share…
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Build Announcements

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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Visit us at GDC 2018 in San Francisco

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March 19, 2018
Whole Tomato Software will exhibit at the Game Developer Conference this week, March 21-23, in San Francisco. If you attend the expo, stop by booth 123 to see the latest features in Visual Assist, share your wishes for the product, and pick up some nifty swag. Click to share…
Build Announcements

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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Build Announcements

Visual Assist build 2248 is available

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December 26, 2017
Visual Assist build 2248 closes our dealing with recent bugs in Windows 10 and a problem with Visual Studio 2017. Prior posts in this blog describe the bugs and the workarounds, but the outcome of the ordeal is that if you use Windows 10—version 1703 or 1709—update to…
Tips and Tricks

Speed up opening of editors when using Visual Assist in Windows 10 (Fall Creators Update)

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November 28, 2017
Microsoft tightened security in the Windows 10 Version 1709 Fall Creators Update (FCU), but unfortunately, the tightening adversely affects the performance of applications that use the Win32 GetPixel API. Visual Assist is one such application so initial opening of editor windows in Visual Studio, when Visual Assist is active, can be extremely slow. You can speed up the opening of edtor windows…
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News

November 14th update fixes one crash in Visual Studio

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November 22, 2017
Two bugs in recent updates to Microsoft Windows 10 cause Visual Studio to crash when certain extensions, including Visual Assist, are installed. Microsoft fixed one of the bugs, a broken hook mechanism, in its November 14, 2017, update. All Windows 10 users with Visual…
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Recent updates to Microsoft Windows 10 cause Visual Studio to crash

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October 30, 2017
Several bugs in recent updates to Microsoft Windows 10 cause Visual Studio to crash when certain extensions, including Visual Assist, are installed: Windows 10 Build 15063.608, issued Sept 12th, broke Windows hook procedures located in high memory. Windows Version 1709 (Fall Creators Update), released Oct 17th, broke also CreateWindow() and CreateWindowEx(). Microsoft is actively seeking…
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