Whole Tomato--Visual Assist

Whole Tomato--Visual Assist

Eliminate the frustration in C, C#, and C++ development in Visual Studio.

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All-in-one productivity toolkit

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.

 

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!

 

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.

 

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.

 

Saves you time

Visual Assist can save you a lot of time—especially in complex and larger projects.

With a standalone parser, separate from Visual Studio’s, Visual Assist give you smarter and more performant coding insights. On many operations, VA will give you accurate results faster—it will even suggest corrections and completion prompts as you write your code!

 

Simplify work

With Visual Assist’s context-aware parser, you can avoid unnecessary typing. Timely prompts and suggestions appear as you need them.

• Skip multiple steps with automated refactoring and debugging tools.
• Instantly find and jump to the exact section of code you need.
• Code with fewer interruptions with unmatched performance and accuracy.

Visual Assist is designed to make coding faster and easier over Visual Studio’s native tools.

All-in-one productivity toolkit

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.

 

 

Coding Assistance

Feel free to keep typing. Visual Assist suggests completions only if they save you loads of typing time, and it quietly fixes small mistakes you leave behind.

 

Code Understanding

Make sense of complex code. Whether it’s someone else’s source code or a project you have not opened in a long time.

 

Special Development

Never go without your trusted features. Visual Assist adds support for those special languages and development environments such as bespoke Unreal code or shader file syntax.

 

 

Read what our users say about us

Mark T.

Senior Software Engineer

"If I lose my hands I could type with my mouth. Take my VA and I'm done."

It doesn't write the code for me, but it provides the tools for me to write it faster and better. I'm getting to really like the VA Code Inspection and the Extract Method really helps.

 

Anon.

Enterprise Banking Developer

"Great software to code fast!"

I think VA does its core job best! Refactoring of code and which helps me tremendously with my projects. I can code faster and deliver faster. I think I am so addicted to the software that I cannot do without it even one day! And thats true!

 

Victor I.

C++ Developer

"Good performance on large projects, handy for everyday workflow."

The most performant solution among several alternatives I've tried on a large project.

 

Ryan V

Game Director

"Visual Assist is absolutely essential."

Visual Assist is absolutely needed for professional programming in Visual Studio… The time saved through the use of these very basic things is quite incalculable to the point where there's just no reason for anyone to ever use Visual Studio without Visual Assist.

 

 

Anon.

Unreal Engine Developer

"Visual Assist is an absolute essential when it comes to working with large code bases."

Visual Assist drastically improves upon the built-in Intellisense system provided in Visual Studio. When using Visual Assist, I find that I spend much less time combing through Unreal Engine code as well as my own. The 'Search for Symbol' feature also allows filtering out engine code in order to quickly find symbols within my own code.

 

Saman K

Animation Artist

"A real assistant."

Fewer errors, less googling, and less confusion. It provides what I expect from a modern IntelliSense.

 

Frequently Asked Questions

How different is it from Visual Studio’s default features and Intellisense?

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.

What support does Visual Assist provide??

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.

 

How will the long-term benefits outweigh the initial cost??

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.

 

What kind of developers benefit from using Visual Assist?

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.