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Making a case for investing in software tools: convincing yourself, your team, and your boss

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September 27, 2024
Introduction Visual Assist has been a longtime partner for coding in Visual Studio. It adds missing features and sometimes even replaces the default features in the IDE. In fact, you can even argue that Visual Assist had a direct influence as to how some of the features in Visual Studio panned out. But what makes Visual Assist (VA) such a compelling purchase? And what about it makes it a…
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The biggest challenges in writing C++ programs for finance and banking

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August 28, 2024
Introduction When it comes to developing software for the finance and banking industry, C++ is often the language of choice due to its performance, efficiency, and flexibility. However, writing C++ programs in this highly regulated and fast-paced environment comes with its own set of challenges. From managing the complexity of legacy codebases to ensuring real-time performance for trading systems…
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Catching up with VA: Our most recent performance updates

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July 21, 2024
Throughout its long lifetime, Visual Assist (VA) has been a top-of-the-line productivity plugin with a performance advantage over Visual Studio and other plugins. Performance and speed has been a bread-and-butter factor for choosing VA—and we’ve doubled down with updates focused on cutting interruptions and load times. VA had significant improvements in 2024, particularly in the initial…
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On the recent video game industry layoffs

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May 15, 2024
Like many others, we have been shocked and increasingly concerned to hear of the recent gaming studio closures and layoffs. Cumulatively, this has impacted far more in this industry than any of us would have expected. Many of our most ardent Visual Assist champions are game…
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Visual Assist 2024.3 release post

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May 2, 2024
Another Visual Assist update?! VA 2024.3 is headlined by a dramatic improvement to the performance of Find References. This release also features both a fix and an improvement related to Move Implementation. We also have some key features exiting their beta phase (try them out!). Lastly, performance for C# should be better than ever with key fixes rolling out in this release. Download the release…
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