Build Announcements

Visual Assist build 2023 is available

After a month with an RC, we’re happy to announce availability of a general release. You need maintenance through 2013.12.20 to run build 2023. If you’re a new customer and don’t how to tell if you’re qualified to run a build, learn here or wait for your current copy of Visual Assist to explain your options, assuming Check for Updates is enabled. Build 2023 is primarily a…
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News

The Tomato introduces a new website

We are happy to introduce a revamped website for Visual Assist. We think the site is simple, well organized, responsive, and replete with content new and existing developers need to be productive with Visual Assist. You’ll find: A “What’s New” page…
News

Visual Assist loses her X

After ten years of dealing with her ex, Visual Assist X has regained her simpler name, Visual Assist. Now for a bit of history. The X in Visual Assist X became part of the product name in 2004, when developers at the Tomato decided it was important that customers get new…
News

Visual Assist Supports Visual Studio 2013

Whole Tomato has always taken pride in maintaining support for every Microsoft IDE our customers use, from Visual C++ 6.0 through Visual Studio 2013. If you own a license for Visual Assist, or are considering a trial, know that the latest build of Visual Assist has full support for Visual Studio 2013 RTM. Users with software maintenance through November 11, 2013, qualify to run Visual Assist build…
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Tips and Tricks

alt+g in Comments

If you don’t read our build change history page, you might miss some small gold nuggets.  For example, back in build 1734, we added an enhancement to our goto command (alt+g) so that it operates within comments.  The accuracy of goto within comments depends upon…
Tips and Tricks

Open File in Solution tip

I was using the OFIS (Open File in Solution) dialog the other day and it occurred to me that I use some features in it that might not be so apparent to users that didn’t actually write the code for it.  As an aside, this feature was formerly known as Open File in…
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Visual Studio 2010 sim-ship

We’re excited to announce plans to simultaneously ship Visual Assist X 10.6 with Visual Studio 2010 this Spring!  As a Visual Studio Industry Partner, we’ve been working hard to make sure the features you’ve come to expect from Visual Assist X are ready to…
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