diff --git a/qrenderdoc/Code/pyrenderdoc/qrenderdoc.i b/qrenderdoc/Code/pyrenderdoc/qrenderdoc.i
index 862c5257a..2472efc6b 100644
--- a/qrenderdoc/Code/pyrenderdoc/qrenderdoc.i
+++ b/qrenderdoc/Code/pyrenderdoc/qrenderdoc.i
@@ -9,9 +9,16 @@
 #define DOCUMENT4(text1, text2, text3, text4) %feature("docstring") text1 text2 text3 text4
 
 %begin %{
-  #undef slots
+#undef slots
 
-  #define SWIG_GENERATED
+#ifndef SWIG_GENERATED
+#define SWIG_GENERATED
+#endif
+
+// we want visual assist to ignore this file, because it's a *lot* of generated code and has no
+// useful results. This macro does nothing on normal builds, but is defined to _asm { in va_stdafx.h
+#define VA_IGNORE_REST_OF_FILE
+VA_IGNORE_REST_OF_FILE
 %}
 
 %{
diff --git a/qrenderdoc/Code/pyrenderdoc/renderdoc.i b/qrenderdoc/Code/pyrenderdoc/renderdoc.i
index 0bafd47d2..2e4e03035 100644
--- a/qrenderdoc/Code/pyrenderdoc/renderdoc.i
+++ b/qrenderdoc/Code/pyrenderdoc/renderdoc.i
@@ -57,7 +57,16 @@
 %rename("AddChild") "SDObject::DuplicateAndAddChild";
 
 %begin %{
-  #undef slots
+#undef slots
+
+#ifndef SWIG_GENERATED
+#define SWIG_GENERATED
+#endif
+
+// we want visual assist to ignore this file, because it's a *lot* of generated code and has no
+// useful results. This macro does nothing on normal builds, but is defined to _asm { in va_stdafx.h
+#define VA_IGNORE_REST_OF_FILE
+VA_IGNORE_REST_OF_FILE
 %}
 
 %{
diff --git a/qrenderdoc/Code/pyrenderdoc/va_stdafx.h b/qrenderdoc/Code/pyrenderdoc/va_stdafx.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..02487f8a2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/qrenderdoc/Code/pyrenderdoc/va_stdafx.h
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+// This is used to conditionally stop visual assist from parsing swig-generated files
+
+#define VA_IGNORE_REST_OF_FILE _asm {
diff --git a/qrenderdoc/va_stdafx.h b/qrenderdoc/va_stdafx.h
index cc7a1097a..0747a0570 100644
--- a/qrenderdoc/va_stdafx.h
+++ b/qrenderdoc/va_stdafx.h
@@ -3,3 +3,7 @@
 // not being found properly.
 
 #define QT_NAMESPACE
+
+// This is used to conditionally stop visual assist from parsing swig-generated files
+
+#define VA_IGNORE_REST_OF_FILE _asm {