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Visual Assist is very good at code comprehension. It almost feels like it can read my mind. It automatically provides smart suggestions and context-aware completions while my coding process is well underway. The number of times we pass through our reference material will no longer be five minutes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Visual Assist has a major disadvantage which is its price. It can be an expensive ally, hence not everyone can afford it (specially freelancers or small development teams) irrespective of its power. This thing is a device that could be helpful to many people, however, for some maybe a price is an obstacle of access. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
26 out of 27 Total Reviews for VISUAL ASSIST
I've gotten so used to this extension that I can't really run without it anymore. It makes searching, refactoring code, and writing new code so much easier. Some feature examples: write out a class declaration and then have Visual Assist write the stubs for the member definitions for you in the corresponding source file, rename variables across the whole project, search for declarations/definitions faster than IntelliSense can find them, open a file anywhere in the solution in only a few keystrokes, etc, etc. It's quite handy and easy to use.
It's remarkable that they still support the full range of Visual Studio versions over history, all the way from Visual Studio 6 to Visual Studio 2022.
Customer support has been very helpful as well, whenever I've run into bugs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Some of the features are a little annoying to configure properly. I use VA alongside GitHub Copilot, and VA's suggestion menus that appear while typing will conflcit with the tab-completion keybinding for Copilot and I haven't found a good way around that so I generally leave VA's suggestion boxes disabled. Those suggestion lists also sometimes complete what I'm typing with something completely nonsensical that is nowhere near what I was typing (e.g. calling a destructor somewhere in some random STL class declaration, instead of calling the class function name I was typing out).
The "open file in solution" dialog has some bizarre behavior on occasion, where the search text I gave it will utterly confuse it and it doesn't show files I would expect it to. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Its features are better implemented than the Visual Studio alternatives. The navigation bar alone is worth the price of the license. Find Symbol, Search Files, Open File are all a million times faster than in Visual Studio and they are color-highlighted. Symbol highlighting is perfect - you can immediately see where a variable is written to and read from. Refactoring options far exceed Visual Studio's. And the code recent inspection feature is brilliant at flagging up potential sloppy code. There are too many great features to mention. And it doesn't bog down the IDE like Resharper does. I keep coming back to Visual Assist. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I'd like more syntax coloring options :). Sometimes the italic font is rendered as just slanted characters which annoys me far more than it should. Sometimes the code generation/moving feature messes up and you have to do it by hand. I would love the auto-include header file feature to use "xxx" for project header files and <xxx> for system headers. The VISX seems to take forever to install. But these are all very minor gripes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Visual Assist makes navigating a very large codebase like Unreal Engine practical. Its search and reference-finding tools are second-to-none. I rely almost every day on its ability to open a class directly without knowing what file contains it, and its ability to find every reference to an object. Refactoring tools have become muscle memory. I feel utterly limited when I sit down at a Visual Studio installation that doesn't have Visual Assist installed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The two issues I had in the past have both been resolved in recent updates so they're really no longer problems. The first was that VA didn't offer a subscription plan for individual purchasers, so renewing was an unnecessarily cumbersome project, but they fixed that. The second was that on Unreal Engine's enormous codebase, initial project indexing could take a long while, during which VA's utility was limited, but the 2024 releases dramatically sped up this process too. I don't really have any current complaints. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Visual Assist provides all of the core functionality of intellisense and more. The greatest asset VA provides for me, is enabling seamless navigation through a project via several shortcuts and tools: Find References, Open Corresponding files, VA View/Outline/Hashtags, and more. Beyond that, the code completion and highlighting that it provides along with its UnrealEngine integration is almost a necessity for my productive development at this point, as I'd otherwise be complaining about VisualStudio every step of the way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The worst part of visual assist is that it doesnt come included with VisualStudio installation. The price/license model + setup is certainly a barrier to entry for most. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The feature of code completion present in Visual Assist is indisputably remarkably advanced. It gets from my coding history and copies even entire lines and functions, giving me a lot of time to spare for more sophisticated tasks. Also, my projects look clean, consistent, and polished with the help of auto code formatting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Visual assist suggests some things which do not have a justification. It enrolls me with the most accurate suggestions and removes the unnecessary ones which are very intricate the process of finding the code snippet that I use. There are also occasion errors which can be frustrating when working in projects that are quite complex. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Visual Assist sparkles with its brilliant code finishing and setting mindful ideas. It resembles having a coding whisperer close by, continually helping me to remember linguistic structure, capability definitions, and in any event, offering potential code fixes. This element helps me by looking through documentation and further develops my general coding exactness. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The disappointment with Visual Assist is its periodic flimsiness. Some of the time, in the wake of altering or adding new code, the ideas and culminations glitch, offering immaterial choices in any event, crashing the whole IDE. This disturbs my work process and can be very tedious to investigate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I think Visual Assist offers the most to me and this is its ability to provide real-time and collaborative communication, among team members. One of the well known functions of the code refactoring applications is to speed up the development process and ensure optimal code quality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The inconsistency in code navigation functionalty is among the key disadvantages. I come across a lot of impediment in locating necessary piece of code base which usually results in wastage of time and low performance. 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.
