SlickEdit Receives 2005 Visual Studio Readers Choice Merit Award
SlickEdit Voted Top Development Tool by Visual Studio Audience

Morrisville, NC, June 1, 2005 – SlickEdit Inc., provider of essential software development tools, announced today that Visual Studio Magazine presented them with the 2005 Readers Choice Merit Award in the Development Tools category. The Readers Choice Merit award is received for products that exhibit real value to readers of Visual Studio Magazine.

Winners were announced May 9, 2005 at VSLive!, the largest, independent international conference for Windows developers. Patrick Meader, Visual Studio Magazine editor in chief, said, “Third party products represent an invaluable service to the Visual Studio developer community, and save developers almost incalculable amounts of time and money. It is always gratifying to see companies receive the recognition they deserve from the people who matter most: the developers who use their products.” Visit www.ftponline.com for a full list of awards and winners.

“Receiving recognition from users of SlickEdit is a true honor,” said Clark Maurer, CTO and Founder of SlickEdit, Inc. “Our goal is to continue to provide high performance tools with innovative features that increase developer productivity.”

Used as a complementary editor, SlickEdit enables developers to open Visual Studio projects and workspaces, offering a highly customizable and responsive editing experience. For more information about SlickEdit, please visit www.slickedit.com.

About Visual Studio Magazine, www.visualstudiomagazine.com
Visual Studio Magazine, formerly Visual Basic Programmer's Journal, has been the leading independent source for technical information for professional developers working with Microsoft-based toolsets and technologies for almost 14 years.

About Fawcette Technical Publications, Inc., www.ftponline; www.ftpmediakit.com
FTP is the leading multi-media provider of how-to, hands-on technical information for the IT development professional. As the only truly integrated media provider of its kind, FTP is the producer of print magazines (Visual Studio Magazine and Java Pro); e-books (Enterprise Architect); conferences (VSLive!, Enterprise Architect Summit, ThunderLizard Productions, and JavaPro Live!); and the online network of technical sites at www.ftponline.com.

About SlickEdit Inc.
SlickEdit Inc. provides software developers with multi-language development tools and the most advanced code editors available. Proven on Windows, Linux, UNIX and Mac OS X platforms, SlickEdit products enable even the most accomplished developers to code faster and meet increasingly aggressive deadlines. For more information about SlickEdit and free trial downloads, please visit www.slickedit.com.

Visual SlickEdit and SlickEdit are registered trademarks of SlickEdit Inc.