Visual Assist is a productivity extension for Visual Studio development work. It provides a set of contextual and timely refactoring, navigation, code highlighting and generation features for C, C++, and C# development.
Visual Assist is one of the definitive plugins that conceptualized and shaped most of the current features you see now in Visual Studio. And to this day it continues to develop user-centric design for maximum productivity and usability.
Increase productivity with uninterrupted work. The parser efficiently supports your workflow. Loading times and memory usage has been significantly optimized so you can work continuously.
No more frustrating errors and tedious debugging. Visual Assist suggests code corrections in real time and provides numerous code inspections and refactoring features, greatly reducing time spent fixing errors.
Visual Assist 2024 expands on the plugin's core functionality and language support. Recent updates take advantage of the exceptional performance gains from unlocked bandwidth from the monumental Visual Studio 2022 update.
Faster Find ReferencesFind usages of the current symbol within the current project or solution in a quarter of the time. As of VA 2024.3, Finding references has been sped up by up to four times faster.
Significantly faster initial parsingOpen and load new projects in a fraction of the time. Visual Assist 2024 boasts a significantly better parsing time of up to 15 times faster (vs older versions of VA).
100+ New code inspection checks and updated LLVM Clang Tidy engineModernize and fix code issues en masse with over a hundred new code inspections based on Clang Tidy. See full list of code inspections. VA now runs on LLVM/Clang version 15.0 engine.
Visual Assist also fills gaps in the coding experience of Microsoft Visual Studio, making a great IDE, a phenomenal one. Add navigation and syntax highlighting for specialized languages and applications not natively supported by the IDE.
Reduce the complexity of your code, improve its readability, and make it extensible without changing its external behavior. Refactor with commands like Rename, Encapsulate Field, Introduce Variable, and Change Signature.
Write code with assistance that doesn't get in your way. Select using enhanced member listboxes, surround selections with code snippets, quickly grow selections on logical boundaries, and accept suggestions that appear before you type.
Use debugger enhancements in Visual Assist to shorten the time required to debug native C/C++. Browse PDBs efficiently; resolve symbols in text-only call stacks; and use the VA Step Filter to step over trusted methods in argument lists.
Expand frequently typed segments of code with a more powerful version of the like-named feature in the IDE. Expand symbols from the current context, prompt for user input, and edit VA Snippets in a custom editor.
Recently purchased two c100 MK II for a documentary. We are planning to shoot in CP9 CINEMA w/ visual assist. However, when I flip on Visual assist little to nothing happens. The image still looks very flat and hard to judge exposure on. Am I missing something here? The waveform barely moves at all, if any.
Hello BinaryBlowfish,
When shooting on the EOS C100 Mark II, for the view assist to be functional, the camera should be set to record Canon Log Gamma. Is your EOS C100 Mark II set to that? It will not appear in your recordings. Do you see "V.ASSIST" on the screen when you activate that from the camera menu?
Visual Assist is a plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio developed by Whole Tomato Software. The plug-in primarily enhances IntelliSense and syntax highlighting, along with navigating through source code and providing flexible refactorings. It also enhances code suggestions, can generate or rewrite code, and includes spell checking support for comments, as well as adding enhanced debugging tools.[1] It can also detect syntax mistakes such as use of undeclared variables, and provides code analysis to detect potential bugs or performance issues in source code.[2]
As of March 2023, Visual Assist supports Visual C++ 2022 right back to Visual Studio 2005, including the Community Editions. Support for Visual Studio 6.0 - 2003 was deprecated in 2017, though the latest version to support those older IDEs is still available for download. (Visual Studio Express editions lack third-party extensibility and Visual Studio Code uses a separate extensibility model, thus Visual Assist cannot be used with them.)
Visual Assist is used by C++ development teams worldwide, but is especially popular in the game development industry. Many Unreal Engine developers list installing Visual Assist as a key requirement before beginning development with Unreal.[3][4][5]
Visual Assist has a custom language parser, which is not a compiler-style parser. Compiler-style parsers require well-formed code (badly formed code causes a compile error!) and will follow compiler directives, such as macros that can direct the compiler to include or exclude certain code. It's common for code tooling tools to use either compiler engines or compiler-style parsers, but Visual Assist's approach is more flexible and means the tool is more useful in real-world coding environments. When coding, a developer may have incompletely written code, but an assistance tool needs to still function correctly, as Visual Assist does. Similarly, Visual Assist is aware of macros, but can "see" inside macros that a compiler will exclude: this means it can refactor fully, rather than missing references that other tools would not see.
Until Visual Studio 2022, Visual Studio was a 32-bit application, constraining memory to a maximum of 4GB. It is common for developers to have multiple plugins loaded into Visual Studio, and the Visual Assist developers spent considerable effort on ensuring the memory impact of using Visual Assist was very low,[8] even parsing very large projects. Both this and the custom parser also result in high performance parsing or indexing code compared to other tools.
I really like using VisualGDB, but it is frustrating that I cannot get the static analysis capability of Clang while using Visual Assist to help navigate the project. The syntax highlighting and navigation of a project using Visual Assist is really great. Is there any way to get Visual Assist and Clang IntelliSense to work together on the same project? It appears that Visual Assist becomes disabled when Clang IntelliSense gets enabled.
Also with the navigation, we are working on a mechanism that will allow quickly searching in the global symbol cache of Clang IntelliSense, letting you quickly find definitions of symbols anywhere in the project. Let us know if this is something you would find helpful and we could share a link to a preview build with this feature once it is available.
I tried resharper and Visualdb as MsBuild projects . Works very nice ! The only issue is that Cmake visualgdb uses clang which disables most of resharper c++ features . Maybe is there a way to disable clang intellisense for cmake prjects ?
Do you want to avoid wasting time when correcting errors? Visual Assistance lets us view what you are seeing and enables us to support you remotely in finding a quick solution to your problem. We digitally bridge the distance between you and our service engineers thanks to visual support with effective functions. We are at your side to share our expertise and get fast solutions.
Whether it is a technical problem, a spare part or a question concerning maintenance: with the Service app, you can send your service messages quickly and easily to our Technical Service team at any time.
TOMRA Visual Assist virtually places TOMRA's expert in front of the customer's machine, enabling a fast response and, during the COVID-19 pandemic, overcoming travel restrictions and addressing safety concerns.
"Fast response time is critical for our customers, who deal mostly in perishable goods," explains Andreas Reddemann, VP and Head of Global Service at TOMRA Food, Aftermarket & Service. "Machine downtime for them may result in a deterioration in the quality of their product. During the harvesting season, they receive a constant flow of material and have to process high volumes, so uptime is vital. That's why, at TOMRA Food, we have an ongoing focus on responding as fast as possible and in a way that is practical for them. When you have such a diverse geographic spread of customers as we have, it is not always possible to have the right Field Service Engineer immediately on site. TOMRA Visual Assist addresses this gap between being advised of an issue and being able to be there to support physically."
TOMRA Visual Assist is very easy to use and requires no equipment other than a mobile phone with a camera. When the customer requests support through a message, email, or phone call, the TOMRA Field Service Engineer sends an invitation to initiate the session. When the app opens, it seamlessly links through to a call with the TOMRA expert best suited to help them with the specific challenge they are facing. When connected, they communicate through voice and video.
The Field Service Engineer can direct the customer to point the camera of their mobile phone to show what they need to see. With TOMRA Visual Assist, they can also share with the customer documents and annotate images to explain and clarify directions.
TOMRA's choice of technology also enables the use of advanced tools such as Smart Glasses, which provide an Augmented Reality remote intervention that leaves the customer technician or Field Service Engineer on-site with their hands free to operate with maximum safety.
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