Write <b>better quality code<b>, in a fraction of the time

Boosts productivity and code quality for C, C#, and C++ developers in Visual Studio with smart navigation, refactoring, auto-completion, and code analysis.

All-in-one productivity toolkit

Faster performance and responsiveness
Faster performance and responsiveness

Visual Assist is built with performance in mind and is instantly ready when you need it.

With Visual Assist’s lightweight design language, you can stay honed in. Even in the largest projects, on the most complex C++ projects, you can rely on Visual Assist efficient memory management for responsiveness.

Faster performance and responsiveness
Special language support
Special language support

Visual Studio sometimes does not recognize languages that look similar to C++. This can cause frustration because features such as syntax highlighting and basic navigations break down.

Visual Assist augments Visual Studio to understand such languages and syntax. Be equipped to work with specialized languages such as Unreal Engine code, shader files, and more with Visual Assist!

Special language support
Game development support <br/> (Unreal & Unity)
Game development support
(Unreal & Unity)

Be an epic game developer with tailored support for Unreal Engine 4/5 and Unity Engine development.

Save time, understand more and be a smarter developer. Visual Assist augments Visual Studio’s with better performance through better memory management and a smarter UI that understands the game development code.

Game development support <br/> (Unreal & Unity)
Better Intellisense
Better Intellisense

With Visual Assist, you can get Intellisense-like features—but it’s significantly faster and easier to use.

Visual Assist offers tools for Refactoring, Navigation, Debugging Assistance, and Automatic Code Rewriting to name a few categories. We have so many tools, many users opt to disable the built in Intellisense altogether.

Better Intellisense
Code and Project Navigations
Move and find where you need to be with ease—to any file, method, symbol, or reference in your projects and solutions. Get anywhere from anywhere, instantaneously.
Refactoring
Improve the readability or extend your code base in a few steps. Make many small changes methodically without altering the code's external behavior.
Code Generation
Use templates to quickly build up projects and context-aware suggestions to generate code in a breeze.

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Academic license program

Visual Assist for Education

Free
Students
Free
Students and learners with verified educational email addresses are eligible for a complimentary license of Visual Assist. Check with your university or program if they have existing packages with Whole Tomato and they can provide you free access.
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Teachers / Institutions
Sponsored
Looking to share Visual Assist to your class or department? Teachers, instructors, and educational institutions can get a number of tiered package options to help get your students set up.

Develop games faster & easier in Visual Studio C++

Go beyond the limitations of Visual Studio with Visual Assist’s tailored features and support for Unreal Engine 4 & 5. Experience context-aware suggestions, snappy performance, and minimal loading time even in large game projects.

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VA 2025.1 focuses on enhancing UX and system stability by tweaking the interfaces with subtle but sensible changes. The release also adds support for C++ modules and config file configuration for C#.
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TOP 10 Visual Assist features that improve productivity

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Visual Assist always has a steady stream of new features coming out

Great stuff happens all the time

See What’s New

Visual Assist always has a steady stream of new features coming out

Frequently Asked Questions

Visual Assist and the built in Intellisense tooling share a few common features. Where we share features, VA frequently operate much faster and do a better job of giving you the correct results (e.g. finding more references that Visual Studio would miss).

Also, the Visual Studio UI can arguably complicate some dialog boxes for simple tasks.

An example is the Visual Studio unified search, which operates like the search bar in the operating system wherein everything is shown. In contrast, VA uses different search dialogs for each type of search, each with features specific to that kind of search and without displaying results you aren’t interested in.

Visual Assist (VA) is a coding productivity plugin for C++ and C# developers who work in Visual Studio. Visual Assist has its own code parser, separate from the built in Intellisense parser. This provides all of the features one would expect from a modern IDE and many more.

These features include tools for Navigation, Refactoring, Debugging Assistance and Automatic Code Modernization with Code Inspections. VA also offer special support and tooling for Unreal Engine, Unity, Graphics Card “Shaders” and CUDA.

Yes! We have special licenses for students and teachers. Visit this page to learn more.

As with any tool, how useful it is depends on how much you intend to use it. VA enhances productivity by improving Visual Studio’s default features or by adding new ones absent from the IDE.

Some users focus on a few features, while some take the time to try out all the features. There are many options available to you with all of them aimed at making you code faster, easier, and making the experience less frustrating.

Read this blog to learn more about the value VA provides

Developers using Microsoft’s Visual Studio to develop and code using C, C# and C++ will benefit from using VA.

There has been a focus on C++ game development (Unreal Engine) wherein the added support and tooling is most needed. Recent updates have also added support and tooling for Unity Engine, Graphics Card “Shaders” and CUDA development.

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