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Visit Us at GDC 2017 in San Francisco

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February 21, 2017
The Tomato will exhibit at the Game Developer Conference next week, March 1-3, in San Francisco. If you will attend the show, be sure to stop by booth 2438 and say hello. Get a peek at new and forthcoming features in Visual Assist, share with us your wish list, and introduce Visual Assist to your coworkers. We will have swag on hand. Click to share on Facebook (Opens…
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Visual Assist build 2118 is available

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December 13, 2016
Visual Assist build 2118 introduces support for Visual Studio 2017 RC. Technically, support for the latest IDE arrived in build 2116, but we refrained from advertising build 2116 fearing early adopters would find a few problems. Alas, that assumption turned…
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Visual Assist does not yet support Visual Studio “15” Preview 5

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October 5, 2016
Microsoft announced today the Preview 5 release of Visual Studio “15”. The Visual C++ Project Engine changed between Preview 4 and 5, and the change prevents Visual Assist from loading solutions. The developers at Whole Tomato Software are working on a resolution. If you use Visual Assist in Visual Studio “15”, stay with the Preview you have or update and…
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Visual Assist build 2112 is available

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September 26, 2016
Visual Assist appeals to all levels of programmers, from students learning the ins and outs of C/C++ to experienced coders wanting tools that improve already impressive speed. The latest build of Visual Assist, build 2112, provides features at both ends. Two dialogs in…
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Visual Assist build 2108 is available

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August 4, 2016
Visual Assist build 2108 is a bug fix build—one bug, in fact, that prevents build 2107 from loading in some user environments. The problem was related to our periodically migrating to a newer toolset. If Visual Assist build 2107 doesn’t load…
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Visual Assist build 2107 is available

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July 22, 2016
Visual Assist build 2107 is a yard-sale of builds—it offers something useful to everyone but has no theme to its entire set of offerings. I describe a few improvements in this post. You will need to visit our what’s-new page or release notes to learn about all of them. If you are a fan of the Smart Select commands in Visual Assist, you will appreciate the more intelligent versions…
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Visual Assist build 2102 is available

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June 3, 2016
Visual Assist build 2102 makes it three builds in four weeks, which is an unwanted record  for us. Microsoft prompted the last build because they issued Visual Studio “15” Preview 2 without notice, which deprecated our prior build. Build…
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Visual Assist build 2098 is available

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May 15, 2016
Visual Assist build 2098 arrives on the heels of build 2097 to provide support in Visual Assist for Visual Studio Enterprise “15” Preview 2, the IDE that Microsoft released while build 2097 was in the final stage of quality testing. If you installed…
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Visual Assist build 2097 is available

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May 12, 2016
Visual Assist build 2097 introduces support for Visual Studio Enterprise “15” Preview 1, just in time for Microsoft’s posting of Preview 2. If you use Preview 1, you can install build 2097 assuming you installed the IDE using its ISO or web installer. The Visual Assist installer for build 2097 won’t recognize your IDE if you installed it only using Microsoft’s…
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