VISUAL ASSIST Reviews & Product Details

Useful highlighting of code and fast search. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing. Obviously, it may contains some issue but usually it fixed asap. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shift + Alt + G (go to related) is great for tracking which derived classes actually implement a certain virtual method Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I haven't actually measured the time but it feels like the newer version take longer to parse the system include headers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The most helpful thing about Visual Assist is the predictive code for Unreal Engine. I just have to start typing and it automatically predicts the correct code that I want to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't really find anything that I dislike about Visual Assist. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

You can't be slower than your competition as a software business. You will be without VA's quick navigation. I've seen new colleagues not using VA struggling with basic "I can't find this definition" or "sorry it took the whole day, it takes so long to find anything." The most simple everyday refactoring options (e.g., rename) that are surprisingly clever are also beneficial. I usually say I love Visual Studio, but to be frank, it's VA that makes this IDE the best. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The price tag! Just kidding. The C# support is not as good as the C++ support (with VA making more mistakes, especially on newer language features), but I use it in C# nonetheless for consistency. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I use the refactoring tools most. E.g. I write something like ClassObject myObj; and the compiler tells me it doesn't understand. Just right-click and 'Add Include'. Done. There are tons more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

VA can get lost with big projects. We have a very large solution with 63 project and 11 configurations with multiple #defines. Right now I have a problem where VA thinks I'm using the wrong header file. It is using one from another config. The compiler is okay, but VA is confused. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Visual Assist is absolutely needed for professional programming in Visual Studio. The things it does seem so obvious and trivial - things like quickly finding any file in the solution, quickly finding any symbol, intelligently renaming symbols, etc. And yet, somehow, these seemingly very basic things just aren't supported 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. I can't understand why Microsoft didn't buy Visual Assist and incorporate it into Visual Studio 15 years ago. But until such time, if you use Visual Studio you need to use Visual Assist. That's all there is to it. Otherwise, you're wasting a ton of time and crippling your productivity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only downside I've found to Visual Assist, which is so minor as to barely even deserve mention, is the first time you open a project it has to scan the solution to understand the symbols for ease of searching thereafter. But it's a very fast, one-time time cost that unlocks huge time savings thereafter. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Fuzzy finder of files and symbols with better performance than Visual Studio—this alone is worth the price. Change signature of a function (when it works, ~90% of the time). Rename for variables and methods is a game changer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As you write code Visual Assist gets confused and typing latency gets really bad—so annoying—on an Intel i9. All refactorings break. So you have to go in tiny steps, get your code to build so that Visual Assist can understand the code. Only Visual Studio itself is getting better about refactoring, and Visual Studio 2019 can usually beat Visual Assist for simple things. For example when you type a new function declaration, the command to create the definition will be disabled for ~7 seconds while Visual Assist figures out there is a new declaration, so I just use the Visual Studio command to create the definition.

List methods used to highlight what method you were in so you could refresh your memory on what arguments are being passed, but hasn't for years anymore—now it is just a list. Find symbol dialog mixes symbols across projects and included directories, even with the "Show only symbols define in current solution" option checked.

Support is good, but slow and takes so much back and forth just because of how complicated the program is, and the amount of project properties investigation you have to do. Visual Assist support st be a hard role to hire for: basically a programmer that wants to do support—so I empathize. But even after sending them all my code for a small ~30K project, I wasn't able to get the parsing working—and I gave up and stopped renewing.

The couple of updates per year address how I use the program. The basics have been getting worse year after year as the company is focusing on differentiating features and marketing. The last 12 months of updates have just been for Unreal Engine and Code Inspection—which just pesters you to change your typedefs to using statements, and your defines to constexprs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I see that it's a perfect experience. I know that it facilitates working. Relational databases. Facilitate interacting with tables or schemas or optimizing the queries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Till now, I don't see any dislikes. I see it's working well. It's realized, but if enhancement query optimizer occurred, it would be better and give very good experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have no major complaints so far. Any problems I have I'm sure can be quickly handled by WholeTomato and their community. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Refactoring the code faster and moving around in the code and project files is the best part I like. Comparing to VS, it does the work better. Keep the new features coming. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is really nothing I can think of! I have seen new features coming to the software and never found anything which I dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.