I've installed the
software... now what?
We understand that once you
install a new piece of software, you just
want to use it and see what it can do. This
page will give you a quick walk-through of
some of the major features of SlickEdit
Tools with the least amount of reading. Once
you see what's available, we're confident
that you'll want to open the full
documentation and learn more.
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SlickEdit Tools Assistant |
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The Tools Assistant is a tool window
that helps you learn more about all of the
features available in both toolboxes. |
The tool window is displayed and docked to the right
side of the editor window by default.
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Acronyms and
Aliases: Acronyms Quick Start |
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While editing a source
code file, select the text
for which you want to define
an acronym. |
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Press Ctrl+Shift+` (backtick).
(Or, select Define Acronym
from the right-click context
menu.) |
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The Add/Edit Code
Acronym dialog is displayed.
Enter the short acronym
identifier, and click OK. |
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Acronyms and
Aliases: Aliases Quick Start |
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Select the File
> Open > File menu
option (Ctrl+O)
to show the Open
File dialog. |
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Place the caret in the
File name
entry field, and type
wd.
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Press Ctrl+Space.
The wd is
replaced with C:\WINDOWS
(or whatever your %WINDIR%
environment variable is
defined as). |
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Press Enter,
and you are now in the
Windows® directory. |
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Auto Code Doc
Viewer Quick Start |
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Open the Quick Profiling
sample project in your
installation directory under
\SampleProjects\QuickProfilingSample. |
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Open the Auto
Code Doc Viewer
tool window by choosing
SlickEdit > Show
Auto Code Doc Viewer.
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The viewer window will
appear as a tabbed document,
populated with a link for
the project. |
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By clicking on that
link, you can drill down
into the namespaces,
classes, functions, etc.
defined in that project. |
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You can also browse the
classes, functions,
properties, etc. by using
the indexes at the top of
the page. |
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Code Annotations Quick Start |
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Open the Code
Annotations tool window by
choosing SlickEdit >
Show Code Annotations. |
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The window appears, by
default, docked to the
bottom of the editor. |
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3. |
Open a source file for
editing and position the
caret on a line of code
where you want to leave a
comment. |
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On the tool window,
click the Create New
Annotation button. |
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On the New Annotation
dialog, select
Comment from the
first drop-down list. |
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In the second drop-down
list, make sure
Personal is
selected. |
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Type any text in the
Description
field and click OK. |
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In the source file, the
line is now highlighted and
an annotation marker is
placed in the left margin.
(See the Note below about
enabling enhanced text
markers). |
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The new annotation is
listed in the tool window. |
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Use the tool window to
add, edit, or remove
annotations. |
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Note:
Microsoft® Windows XP and Vista™
users can view enhanced
annotation markers. To enable
these, click Tools >
Options, select
SlickEdit > Editing Toolbox >
Code Annotations in the
option tree, then select the
option Display enhanced
text markers. |
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Comment Wrapping Quick Start |
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1. |
Open a source code file
for editing. |
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Type ///
on the line above a function
header ('''
for VB).
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A skeleton XMLdoc
comment will be created. |
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Position the caret
inside the <summary> tag and
start typing. |
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The text will start
wrapping once the comment
width is greater than 80
characters. |
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NOTE: This is
the default behavior. There are
many options available for
defining how you want your
comments to wrap. |
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Icon Extractor Quick Start |
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1. |
Open the Icon
Extractor tool
window by choosing
SlickEdit > Show Icon
Extractor. You may
want to resize or dock this
window. |
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Click the Open
Image Source
toolbar button. |
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Browse to
C:\Windows\System32.
Select and open the file
shell32.dll. The icon
window will be loaded with
the 200+ icons that are
embedded in that DLL. |
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4. |
Create a new windows
application project by
choosing File > New
> Project. |
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5. |
Open the GUI editor for
the main form. Put a button
on the form and set the
ImageAlign
property to
MiddleLeft. |
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Click the
Refresh Designer Component
Tree button on the
Icon Extractor's toolbar.
The tree will be populated
with the components on the
designer form. |
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Drag an icon from the
icon window onto the
button's node in the tree.
That icon will be assigned
to it both in the tree and
in the designer. This works
for any control that accepts
a graphic or icon, including
menus and toolbars. |
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Quick Profiling Quick Start |
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1. |
Open the Quick Profiling
sample project in your
installation directory under
\SampleProjects\QuickProfilingSample. |
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Open MainForm.cs
and look at the
WebRequest
function, which is called
when the button in the Web
Request Test panel is
clicked. This function
defines profile points
(using
Trace.WriteLine)
after each function call for
downloading a Web page. |
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Run the program. Type a
Web site into the
Web Page URL box
and click the button beneath
it. Do this for several Web
sites. |
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Stop the program. |
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Open the Quick Profiling
Report tool window by
clicking SlickEdit >
Show Quick Profiling Report.
It will appear as a tabbed
document. |
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Click the Open
button on the toolbar and
navigate to the
\bin\Debug directory of
the project. |
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Open the file
Quick Profiling Test ???.qpd
where ??? is the
date and time. |
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The series tree is now
populated and you will see
an entry for each Web site
you downloaded. Check the
box next to each one. The
data grid is then populated
with the recorded timestamps
for those series. |
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Change the
Timestamp Type in
the bottom left corner from
Absolute to
Relative
timestamps. |
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Change View Type
on the toolbar drop-down to
Series Comparison
Chart. |
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The X axis shows the
events that took place
during the download and the
Y axis shows the times they
happened. |
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You can hover over any
point on the lines to get
detailed information about
that data point. |
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Regex Evaluator Quick Start |
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1. |
Open the Regex
Evaluator tool
window by choosing
SlickEdit > Show
Regex Evaluator.
You may want to resize or
dock this window. |
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Enter the
following in the lower text box
of the Regex Evaluator:
\b[A-Z][a-z0-9]+\b |
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Type a sentence in the
upper text box. The
uppercase words will be
highlighted. |
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4. |
Open a file for editing,
or click the tab of an open
file. Click the
Active Doc button
and the regular expression
will be applied to the
document. |
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Click the Save
button on the toolbar. Give
it a name of "Uppercase
words". You can now access
this regular expression from
the My Library
tab. |
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