Tips and Tricks

How to Query File Attributes 50x faster on Windows

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November 14, 2024
Imagine you’re developing a tool that needs to scan for file changes across thousands of project files. Retrieving file attributes efficiently becomes critical for such scenarios. In this article, I’ll demonstrate a technique to get file attributes that can achieve a surprising speedup of over 50+ times compared to standard Windows methods. Let’s dive in and explore how we can…
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Build Announcements

Visual Assist 2024.7 release post

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October 1, 2024
We are excited to announce the release of 2024.7 of Visual Assist! This update introduces several powerful features aimed at improving your coding efficiency and project navigation. Download the release now. Here’s a breakdown of what’s new in this version: New…
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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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Tips and Tricks

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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News

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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