Visual Sidekick 3 Help

Quick Guide

Quick Guide A quick overview of Visual Sidekick is provided for those folk who don't like to wade through details.

Welcome to Visual Sidekick

Welcome Introduction and overview of primary features.
Installation Installation instructions and system requirements.
Registering Evaluation licence, registration details and pricing.
Legal Details Copyright, disclaimer and legal agreement.
Contact Details Information about Syntaxia Technologies.

Using Visual Sidekick

Getting Started A simple introduction to the user-interface and its basic usage.
Browsing How the symbol browser works and what information it presents.
Filtering How the various types of symbol filter strings are supported.
Navigating How to navigate to symbol definitions, files, header/body, etc in the Visual Studio editor.
File Management How to add, remove and reparse files in Visual Sidekick.
Code Generation How to generate code for function bodies from a header class-declaration.
Code Metrics How to view solution-wide metrics and statistics.
Clipboard History How to manage the multiple-history clipboard buffer.
Configuring How to setup and tailor Visual Sidekick.

Reference

Keybindings and Macros Visual Sidekick keybindings and Visual Studio command macros and keybindings.
File Details Various low-level details on Visual Sidekick files, including how to create a new Visual Sidekick library.