Visual Sidekick - A Productivity Enhancement Add-in for Visual Studio

Visual Sidekick brings FAST Code Navigation and Code Generation to Visual Studio for C++ and C# developers.

Visual Sidekick is an add-in that integrates into the Visual Studio IDE in the form of an advanced multi-purpose Toolwindow and new easy-to-use hotkeys.

Visual Sidekick Overview

Visual Sidekick's major features include:

Visual Sidekick integrates with Visual C++ 5/6 and Visual Studio 2002, 2003, 2005 and 2008.


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Major Features of Visual Sidekick

Quickly find any file or symbol using powerful sub-string searches
Jump to files and symbols using a fast sub-string search.
Press Ctrl-Q (Quick Find) then type in sub-strings to narrow down the file or symbol across the entire solution.
Find methods inside classes
Type a class sub-string filter in the first edit box and a member/method filter in the second edit box.
Drill down into base-classes and derived-classes
Expand a class in the Visual Sidekick tree view and drill into base classes and all derived classes.
Navigate code with speed
File-flip between C++ header and body
Press Ctrl-Enter to flip the Visual Studio editor between header and body files.
Method-flip between C++ method declaration and definition
Press Ctrl-Shift-Enter to flip the Visual Studio editor between the method's header specification and the method's implementation.
View and search symbol related to the file you are editing
Press Ctrl-Shift-L (Local Find) to sub-string search across all symbols in the current file and its headers.
Generate C++ code effortlessly
Generate C++ method stubs for new class declarations
Type a C++ class declaration in a header file, flip to the body and press Ctrl-Shift-G to generate all method stubs.
Generate C++ method stubs for methods added to classes.
Type the C++ method declartions in the header file for an existing class, flip to the body and press Ctrl-Shift-G to generate stubs for the newly added methods.
And many more features...
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