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Introduction to CUDA development + How to set up with Visual Studio

TL;DR CUDA lets you harness your GPU’s full power to handle massive tasks faster than traditional CPUs by running thousands of operations at once — a game changer for AI, data science, finance, and more, but comes with a learning curve due to parallel programming and hardware dependencies. The good news? Setting it up with Visual Studio is surprisingly doable in under an hour: install VS, add…
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Visual Assist 2024.9 release post

Happy Holidays! Visual Assist 2024.9 makes its way to general availability this holiday season!  This update introduces a key update to Find References and a new refactoring. We are also introducing a new way to experience Visual Assist—more on this below! And of course…
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Installing Virtual Machines to use Visual Studio on Mac

There are many options for IDEs for developers who are working on a Mac; however, there may still be use cases and instances where the available options are insufficient. For example some projects and client requirements may dictate the use of Microsoft’s Visual Studio (VS)—which is predominantly designed for the Windows OS. As a workaround for, what most Mac users have done (and is one of…
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Visual Assist 2024.1 release post

The first release of the year is here with Visual Assist 2024.1. This update is headlined by the overhaul of our parser, which significantly reduces users’ initial startup times for projects. Also in this release: key behavioral fixes for a few or VA’s navigation…