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Semiconductor Equipment Software: The C++ Stack Behind Control, Vision, and the Fab Host

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August 19, 2026
The person who understood the code is gone An all too familiar scene: Someone new takes over a legacy sensor-testing system, but the handover from the previous engineer was already over. Roger Swann’s experience as a director for an electronics and manufacturing company made such an impression we published a case study about it earlier this month. But we’re not stopping there.
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Build Announcements

Visual Assist 2026.4 release post

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June 30, 2026
The first thing you do with Visual Assist is install it. The first thing you do with it on a project is wait for it to parse. VA 2026.4 makes both smoother. Download it now. This is a smaller build between larger ones — a few bigger efforts are running in parallel, shaped…
Tips and Tricks

How to Navigate a Large or Legacy C++ Codebase in Visual Studio

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June 26, 2026
You cloned the repo on your first morning in your new team’s project. Twenty minutes later you’re looking at a solution with four hundred projects, a build that throws errors on a clean checkout, and a ticket that says a number is wrong on one screen. You don’t know where that screen is—in fact, you don’t know where anything lives. And that’s absolutely normal. But…
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NewsTips and Tricks

Visual Assist’s AI Assistant: Things You Can Do with VA Intelligence Right Now

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April 23, 2026
If you’ve been following Visual Assist for a while, you might have noticed something a little different about the last few releases. Alongside the navigation improvements, refactoring updates, and parser optimizations, there’s a quieter but important thread running through it all: VA Intelligence. We introduced Explain with AI a few releases back, and with 2026.3 we just shipped Change…
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Webinar Recap

Break Free from IntelliSense Hell with Visual Assist: Learn UE5 C++ Development Techniques [Webinar Recap]

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October 13, 2025
This is the third session in the webinar series on Unreal Engine 5 workflows with Assembla and Visual Assist. Chris Gardner, lead developer at Whole Tomato Software, challenges conventional wisdom about when to use C++ versus Blueprints and demonstrates how Visual Assist solves critical pain points in Unreal Engine C++ development. ? Watch the live demo replay here. The Blueprint vs C++…
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