The C++11 standard has been approved and C++14 is around the corner. These new standards define a lot of interesting language features, one of them being support for the override identifier. You can append “override” to a virtual function declaration and tell the compiler that you want to override a virtual method inherited from a base class. If the virtual method does not exist…
Visual Assist build 2036 is available
May 23, 2014
After living for two months with a beta version of Visual Assist on our website, we are happy to reach another general release. Visual Assist build 2036 has two significant improvements that make this a must-have, must-use, build.
First, build 2036 introduces a new…
Implementing Virtual Methods with Visual Assist
May 23, 2014
Visual Assist has a feature—Implement Virtual Methods—that makes it easy to implement an interface, or abstract methods of a base class. You don’t need to create anything manually.
Move the caret to a base or interface class in the declaration of your…
Scope of Refactoring in Universal Solutions
May 7, 2014
At the Build 2014 conference in San Francisco, Microsoft announced availability of Universal Solutions in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 RC. When you are ready to explore the functionality of this major improvement to the IDE, you’ll want to know how several often-used commands of Visual Assist operate in this new arena.
As a review, a simple Universal Solution is one that has at two or more…
Scope of Refactoring in Multi-Project Solutions
April 30, 2014
There is a subtle connection among the Find References, Rename, and Change Signature commands of Visual Assist, and if you didn’t perceive the connection, you might believe something was awry—with your memory.
The three commands—Find References…
Sorting One's Code
April 27, 2014
Visual Assist has a plethora of features, and it’s difficult to know them all. It’s an even greater challenge to use all of them at every opportunity.
We had one user, Tom, write recently that his “very small favourite feature” in Visual Assist…
Visual Assist build 2031 is available
April 5, 2014
Greetings from San Francisco!
Thank you to all of the customers who stopped by our booth at the Build conference. It’s clear we have ardent supporters. We look forward to providing you with the debugger improvement we demo’d. Expect a beta in a few months. To the many first-time visitors, we hope you find Visual Assist as valuable as we led you to believe.
Build 2031 of Visual Assist…
Visual Assist build 2029 is available
March 19, 2014
We hope you have check-for-new-versions enabled in the options dialog of Visual Assist, because you wouldn’t have learned about last month’s build of Visual Assist in our blog. We shamefully failed to announce build 2029. Social media isn’t yet part of our…
Using Find References to Manage a Task
March 18, 2014
Find References has been a feature of Visual Assist for about a decade. And, while Find References now shares its name with a version of the command integral to Microsoft Visual Studio, the original has pragmatic components that should make it the everyday preference.
If…
Visit the Tomato at Build 2014
March 14, 2014
Join Whole Tomato Software at the Build 2014 conference this year, April 2nd-4th in San Francisco. We’ll be demonstrating Visual Assist to the uninitiated, and offering existing customers a sneak preview of an enhancement to the Visual Studio debugger. Stop by to share your stories and suggestions, grab a stress tomato, or show a friend why Visual Assist is a must-have…
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