What's New in Visual Assist

General Release Build 2024.7 (2535)

Requires active software maintenance through general release date: 2024.09.30

NEW New Refactoring! Sort Methods in Source is released as beta.
NEW New Refactoring! Promote Lambda to Method is released as beta.
NEW Context-sensitive naming in Shift+Alt+Q menu items.
NEW Option to stop highlighting Read and Write references when you move your mouse away.
NEW New reserved strings for VA snippets, especially useful for CMake scripts.
NEW VA Nav Bar dropdown to switch between projects.
NEW Option to adjust overwrite behavior when accepting a completion.
Visual Assist 2024.7 released!

Summary:

We are excited to announce the release of 2024.7 of Visual Assist! This update introduces several powerful features aimed at improving your coding efficiency and project navigation. Download the release now.

This release is packed with powerful new features and enhancements designed to streamline your development workflow. It also marks a developmental milestone on Visual Assist’s context aware features and how they are displayed in the UI.

Highlights include a context-sensitive naming in the quick actions menu. Also in this release, improved highlighting for read and write references and the introduction of two beta features—Sort Methods in Source and Promote Lambda to Method. We also introduce new reserved string variables for the project, solution, and file folder names (just the name not full path) which was a requested feature for CMake. Lastly, better navigation with the VA Nav Bar project switching.

Visit our blog for the more detailed release announcement post.

Bug fixes and improvements:

  • Fixed error in when renaming items in particular cases.
  • Fixed Move implementation header file error when on first line.
  • Fixed quick info menu not showing all options properly when enabled.

General Release Build 2024.6 (2530)

Requires active software maintenance through general release date: 2024.07.30

UPDATE Fixed a crash which can sometimes happen when saving files
UPDATE Fixed an installer crash in versions of Windows older than Windows 10
Visual Assist 2024.6 released!

Summary:

VA 2024.6 is here and is available to download!

A small but crucial release coming your way. Visual Assist 2024.6 brings two critical fixes for Visual Assist’s interaction with Visual Studio.

The first fix in this release addresses a critical issue that could sometimes cause Visual Studio to crash when saving files. This fix enhances the stability of the IDE, ensuring a smoother and more reliable experience while working on your projects.

Additionally, we have resolved an issue where the Visual Studio installer would crash on versions of Windows older than Windows 10. This fix ensures that users running older operating systems can install and update Visual Studio without encountering disruptions. This should provide a seamless setup experience across all supported Visual Assist-supported versions of Visual Studio.

We appreciate your patience and feedback as we continue to improve Visual Assist for all our users.


General Release Build 2024.5 (2528)

Requires active software maintenance through general release date: 2024.06.24

NEW Greatly improved Find References performance. (Yes, again!)
NEW Flexible enterprise licensing support.
UPDATE Fixed Find References crash that could happen in some cases (notably, in Unreal Engine 4.2x)
Visual Assist 2024.5 released!

Summary:

VA 2024.5 is here and is available to download!

Say goodbye to sitting around waiting for search dialogs to finish. VA 2024.5 features yet another round of performance improvements to Find References. Similar to earlier versions, this affects all reference-finding functions such as Rename, Change Signature, Implement Methods and more.

We also include a new type of enterprise licensing intended for simplicity and ease of administration and deployment. Please contact sales for more information.

Lastly, a stability fix for an issue observed with Unreal Engine 4.2. This is associated with the previous update to Find References. While fixing this, we discovered a further way to improve performance in the feature.

Bug fixes and improvements:

  • Fixed a crash observed with Unreal Engine 4.2. The issue was related to Find References, and the fix also improved performance in the feature.