Friday, January 9, 2015

VS Community

As my friend Rich pointed out Visual Studio Community, a more fully fledged IDE than the Express version, is now available.

20 minutes into use...

  • Peek definition is cool - you can even edit in the definition
  • Intellisense is faster - perhaps usable with Unreal? The jury is out... but working intellisense is a huge productivity booster
  • Working debugging visualiser macros (see this and follow directions at the bottom for UE4.natvis)
    • NOTE: The installation under My Documents worked for me, not the other one
    • This allows you to see strings and arrays in the debugger without the 
  • Profiling support
  • Better symbol resolution - I always meant to get engine symbols working with VSExpress but they just worked out of the box with the community edition.

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