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Visual Assist

Fill the gaps in Microsoft Visual Studio when working in C/C++ and C#

Whole Tomato Software delivers productivity tools for C++ and C# development, including one of the most popular plug-ins for Microsoft Visual Studio. Visual Assist fills gaps in the coding experience of Studio, making a great IDE a phenomenal IDE, by providing unmatched functionality for navigation, refactoring, code generation, debugging, and more.

Some of the key features Visual Assist include:

  • Code completion: Provides suggestions for completing code based on the context of the current document.
  • Refactoring: Allows developers to easily rename variables, extract methods, and perform other code refactoring tasks.
  • Error highlighting: Automatically highlights errors in the code, making it easy to identify and fix problems.
  • Code navigation: Allows developers to quickly navigate to different parts of the code, such as class definitions or method signatures.
  • IntelliSense: Provides detailed information about symbols and types as you type.
  • Code generation: Automatically generates common code patterns such as getters and setters, constructors and more.

It is a commercial plugin that supports Visual Studio versions 2005, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021 and 2022.

About

Features in Visual Assist

Fast Navigation

Move about your code with newfound ease—to any file, method, symbol, or reference in your projects and solutions. Get anywhere from anywhere.

The navigation features of Visual Assist, like the other types of features, are entirely new to the IDE, improve built-in functionality, or in a few instances, apply only to older IDEs.

Code Inspection & Modernization

Inspect your code for specific quality issues as you edit. The Code Inspection feature of Visual Assist, based on LLVM/Clang, diagnoses and fixes typical programming errors, like style violations, interface misuse, and bugs that can be deduced via static analysis.

Refactoring

Reduce the complexity of your code, improve its readability, and make it extensible without changing its external behaviour. Refactor legacy code, code you inherit, or the first version of your work.

Code Correction in Visual Assist

Watch Visual Assist correct mistakes as you make them, especially errors in symbol case and pointer notation. Type entirely in lowercase, and watch it correct the case of all of your symbols. Save the shift key for your definitions.

Code Assistance in Visual Assist

Write code faster with assistance that doesn’t get in your way, especially when you’re on a roll. Visual Assist suggests completions only if they save you serious typing, and quietly fix mistakes in your wake.

News

What’s New in Visual Assist

Great stuff happens all the time when using Visual Assist.

Check out what we’ve released recently in our steady stream of new features, support for IDE revisions, and important bug fixes.

System

System requirements for Visual Assist

  • Operating System: Windows 7/8/8.1/10/11.
  • Memory (RAM): 512 MB of RAM is required.
  • Hard Disk Space: 50 MB of free space required.
  • Processor: Intel Dual Core processor or later

Licensing

License Options

VISUAL ASSIST IS OFFERED IN THREE EDITIONS:

Standard for Companies and Organizations

  • Includes support for C/C++ and C#
  • Includes one year of software updates
  • Includes one year of priority support, and unlimited community support
  • Licensed to a company or organization
  • Licensed per developer, not per computer
  • The license can be reassigned and transferred per EULA
  • Qualifies for maintenance renewal


Personal for Individuals

  • Includes support for C/C++ and C#
  • Includes one year of software updates
  • Includes one year of priority support, and unlimited community support
  • Licensed for use only by the individual who purchased the license
  • The license cannot be reassigned or transferred
  • Must be purchased with personal funds
  • Cannot be reimbursed by a company or organization
  • Does not qualify for maintenance renewal

Academic for Students and Faculty

  • Includes support for C/C++ and C#
  • Includes one year of software updates
  • Includes unlimited community support
  • Licensed for use only by the individual who purchased the license
  • Limited to non-commercial purposes
  • Does not qualify for maintenance renewal

Support

Visual Assist Support

Every license of Visual Assist and timely software maintenance renewal includes a year of technical support. If your software maintenance is current, or you are in trial mode, contact Alfasoft, Whole Tomato Support or community forums to obtain technical support, report a bug, or request a feature.

If you need technical support and your software maintenance has expired, request a quote from Alfasoft to renew. Whole Tomato actively monitors our forums but provides support at our discretion.

If you need your serial number or your legacy, two-line activation key, contact Alfasoft or Whole Tomate whether or not your software maintenance is current.