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Welcome

Overview

Welcome to Visual Sidekick, a feature-rich add-in for Visual C++ 5/6 and Visual Studio .NET 2002/2003/2005 that adds numerous time-saving features for C++ and C# developers.

Features

Below is a brief summary of Visual Sidekick's main features:
IDE Integration Seemless integration into the Visual C++ 5/6 and Visual Studio .NET 2002/2003/2005 development environments.
Multiple Languages Parsing of all C#, C++, Managed C++ and C++/CLR source code.
Global Symbol Browser Browsing of managed and unmanaged solution-wide symbols, including namespaces, classes, global-symbols, base classes, derived classes, nested classes, and more...
Local Symbol Browser Browsing of symbols within the context of the current file, including projects, folders, classes, files and global-symbols.
Symbol Filter Very fast and powerful sub-string filtering of all symbols and files across the entire solution.
Unified Browser The unified browse tree provides efficient filtering of classes, symbols, namespaces, files and folders in a single view.
Symbol Navigator Quick positioning of the Visual Studio editor on any symbol declaration, symbol definition or project file.
Editor Navigation Easy flipping between header and source files in the Visual Studio editor, and between method body and header specification.
Code Generator Generation of C++ method body stubs from a header class-declaration.
Code Metrics Up-to-date code metrics for the entire solution.
C++ Libraries Browse, filter and navigate standard C++ libraries, including Win32, MFC, ATL, STL, DirectX.
Clipboard Buffer Multiple-history clipboard buffers for pasting from the last 15 clipboard copy operations.
Drag and Drop Folders and source files can be dragged from Explorer and dropped onto Visual Sidekick for immediate browsing.
Editor File Parsing Any file that is loaded into a Visual Studio editor will be parsed, whether its part of a solution or not.