The plug-in primarily enhances IntelliSense and syntax highlighting, along with navigating through source code and providing flexible refactorings.
It also enhances code suggestions, can generate or rewrite code, and includes spell checking support for comments, as well as adding enhanced debugging tools.
[3][4][5] Youtuber TheCherno states they've used Visual Assist for 90% of the C++ development they've ever done, and refers to the combination of Unreal Engine and Visual Assist as "a match made in heaven.
"[6] The Unreal Engine Community wiki notes, "Many programmers simply prefer to disable [Visual Studio's inbuilt] Intellisense and use Visual Assist that has included support for Unreal Engine".
Both this and the custom parser also result in high performance parsing or indexing code compared to other tools.