{"id":2740,"date":"2022-11-14T12:15:39","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T16:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.wholetomato.com\/?p=2740"},"modified":"2023-11-21T03:31:19","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T07:31:19","slug":"visual-assist-and-arm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wholetomato.com\/blog\/visual-assist-and-arm\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Assist and ARM"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday, Microsoft announced that Visual Studio now officially runs on Windows ARM<\/a>. What does this mean for Visual Assist?<\/p>\n

Visual Assist is a native plugin, so compiled for either 32-bit or 64-bit Intel depending on which version of Visual Studio you\u2019re using. If you run the normal version of Visual Studio, this is exactly what you need. But if you run the ARM version, you would need an ARM build of Visual Assist, and we haven\u2019t yet shipped one. That is, right now you can\u2019t use Visual Assist using the ARM build of Visual Studio.<\/p>\n

We have a history of supporting new versions of Visual Studio<\/a> very close to release. When Visual Studio 2022 was announced, we spent many months moving Visual Assist to 64bit, including blogging about our progress<\/a> and which preview builds of Visual Studio we suggested using our beta version with. So you might expect us to release an ARM build within a few days… but we are not.<\/p>\n

First, we will<\/i> support ARM. It\u2019s coming. It\u2019s important to us to be on all platforms where Visual Studio is.<\/p>\n

Second, we\u2019re not prioritizing as urgently as we did for Visual Studio 2022 support, for the simple reason that very few of our customers are expressing interest in it, including requiring it – ie moving to ARM for development and thus being unable to use Visual Assist. What we\u2019ve seen is interest along the lines of,<\/p>\n