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Visual Sidekick

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Visual Sidekick provides C++ and C# developers with a searchable symbol database, symbol browser, source code navigator, code generator, code metrics, header/source flip and more.
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Overview

Visual Sidekick 3 offers a fast, up-to-date, searchable database of all project classes, symbols, files and project folders.  Using a single sub-string filter query, Visual Sidekick will search all project files and symbols quickly and dynamically.


Major Features

Quickly find any file or symbol

Press Ctrl-Q (Quick Find) then type in sub-strings to narrow down the file or symbol across the entire solution.

Quickly find any file or symbol


Navigate code with speed

Press Ctrl-Enter to flip the Visual Studio editor between header and body files.
Press Ctrl-Shift-Enter to flip the Visual Studio editor between the method's header specification and the method's implementation.
Press Ctrl-Shift-L (Local Find) to sub-string search across all symbols in the current file and its headers.

 Navigate code with speed


Generate C++ code effortlessly

Type or modify a C++ class declaration in a header file, flip to the body and press Ctrl-Shift-G to generate method stubs for all new methods.

 Geneate C++ code effortlessly


Complete Feature List


Visual Sidekick's complete feature list includes:

  • Browse Symbols - Browse and search all classes, namespaces, symbols, files and folders via a single, intuitive tree structure.
  • Search For Any Symbol Fast - Find any symbol using a fast, incremental substring-search.
  • Navigate Code Quickly - Position the IDE editor on any symbol quickly and effortlessly.
  • Generate Code - Generate C++ method body stubs automatically from a class header specification with a single keypress.
  • Search Different Scopes - Search for classes, enums, methods, macros and other C++/C# symbols across the entire solution or within the current file and its headers.
  • Search Class Hierarchy - Browse and search the solution's classes in a hierarchy tree view.
  • Search Standard Libraries - Browse, Navigate and Filter standard libraries, including Win32, MFC, ATL, STL, DirectX, etc.
  • Flip Header/Source - Ctrl-Enter cycles between header and implementation files.
  • Flip Method Declaration/Definition - Ctrl-Shift-Enter flips between method header and method body.
  • View Code Metrics - Report on the number of files, classes, symbols, lines of code, comments, etc.
  • View Clipboard History - View and paste any of the last 15 clipboard copy operations.
  • Drag and Drop Source Code - Browse and edit non-Visual Studio code bases using Visual Studio by dragging the files or folder from Explorer onto Visual Sidekick.
  • Supports Multiple Languages - All C++, C#, Managed C++ and C++/CLR symbols are processed.
  • Integration with current and past IDEs - Integration into Visual Studio .NET 2005, 2003, 2002 and Visual C++ 5 and 6.

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Visit the Visual Sidekick Home Page for more details.

Download a free 30-day evaluation copy of Visual Sidekick


Screenshot

The following screenshot shows Visual Sidekick's complete UI docked inside a Visual Studio toolwindow panel.

 Visual Sidekick Screenshot

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