Build Announcements

Visual Assist build 2217 is available

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April 28, 2017
Build 2217 follows an earlier hiatus in builds and puts us back on track to issue six or seven builds this year. Whereas we started the year introducing a big feature, Code Inspection,  build 2217 is primarily a bug-fix build. Many of the fixes, as you can imagine, relate to Code Inspection. Aside from fixes, build 2217 improves the Open File in Solution (OFIS) dialog such that loading of…
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Visual Assist build 2212 is available

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March 28, 2017
Visual Assist build 2212 follows build 2210 with an important fix for Unreal Engine 4 (UE4) developers—separation of UE4 and UE3 support. Code Inspection, a new feature in Visual Assist, was introduced in build 2210. If you did not get a chance to download 2210, you…
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Visual Assist build 2210 is available

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March 14, 2017
After a long hiatus between builds, the first of year 2017 is now available. Visual Assist build 2210 include two big improvements: support for Visual Studio 2017 and Code Inspection. Visual Assist build 2210 supports the release version of Visual Studio 2017. If you…
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Visit Us at GDC 2017 in San Francisco

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February 21, 2017
The Tomato will exhibit at the Game Developer Conference next week, March 1-3, in San Francisco. If you will attend the show, be sure to stop by booth 2438 and say hello. Get a peek at new and forthcoming features in Visual Assist, share with us your wish list, and introduce Visual Assist to your coworkers. We will have swag on hand. Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click…
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Visual Assist build 2118 is available

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December 13, 2016
Visual Assist build 2118 introduces support for Visual Studio 2017 RC. Technically, support for the latest IDE arrived in build 2116, but we refrained from advertising build 2116 fearing early adopters would find a few problems. Alas, that assumption turned out…
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Visual Assist does not yet support Visual Studio “15” Preview 5

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October 5, 2016
Microsoft announced today the Preview 5 release of Visual Studio “15”. The Visual C++ Project Engine changed between Preview 4 and 5, and the change prevents Visual Assist from loading solutions. The developers at Whole Tomato Software are working on a resolution. If you use Visual Assist in Visual Studio “15”, stay with the Preview you have or update and wait for our next…
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Visual Assist build 2112 is available

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September 26, 2016
Visual Assist appeals to all levels of programmers, from students learning the ins and outs of C/C++ to experienced coders wanting tools that improve already impressive speed. The latest build of Visual Assist, build 2112, provides features at both ends. Two dialogs in…
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Visual Assist build 2108 is available

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August 4, 2016
Visual Assist build 2108 is a bug fix build—one bug, in fact, that prevents build 2107 from loading in some user environments. The problem was related to our periodically migrating to a newer toolset. If Visual Assist build 2107 doesn’t load in your IDE…
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Visual Assist build 2107 is available

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July 22, 2016
Visual Assist build 2107 is a yard-sale of builds—it offers something useful to everyone but has no theme to its entire set of offerings. I describe a few improvements in this post. You will need to visit our what’s-new page or release notes to learn about all of them. If you are a fan of the Smart Select commands in Visual Assist, you will appreciate the more intelligent versions in build…
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