Environment: VC6 SP3,Win98

Introduction

1) Tag indexing and search

• Tag Manager window provides a graphical view of classes and parent/children relationships in the workspace and additional directories (MFC source for example). Can find by name declaration of class, struct, template, function, union, enum, typedefs, defines, externs, variables, members, file includes, interfaces and files.
• One-click tag search: quickly finds declaration of selected tag (class, function, etc.) and positions cursor on it.
• Automatic #include insertion. Automatically adds #include statement for header file with declaration of selected tag.

• Window Manager presents much more convinient alternative to standard "Windows" dialog. Window list can be sorted by name, time, extension or directory. Grouped sorting is suppored, i.e. you can sort by one attribute withing groups sorted by another attribute.
• Session Manager saves sets of opened windows, and allows to switch between saved sets.
• Favorites Manager allows to quickly open files from a list of favorites.
• Auto-save option saves files automatically when switching from Visual Studio to another application.
• Header/source toggle button. Switches between .cpp or .c and .h. For .rc files switches between resource editor and text mode.

• Quickly build selected projects of the workspace without checking dependencies and then run the program in one mouse click.

Installing the Useful Managers

1. Close all instances of Visual Studio.
2. Extract the UsefulManagers.dll and UsefulManagers.reg from the .ZIP file.
3. Double-click on UsefulManagers.reg file and answer "Yes".
4. Copy the UsefulManagers.dll to your DevStudio\SharedIDE\Addins directory (Visual Studio 97) or Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\MSDev98\Addins directory (Visual Studio 6.0).
5. Open Visual Studio.
6. Go to Tools->Customize->Add-ins and Macro Files.
7. Click the check on Useful Managers Addin.
8. Click Close.

Using Useful Managers

   You can set size and position of all resizeable windows from add-in and they will be saved automaticaly.
   Use options dialog to customize preferences for add-in.

Tags Manager

class EXPORT MyObject
{
};

Note: There is a limit - 32000 tags of each type. So if you select additional directory C:\DevStudio, please do not find defines. Do you know that there are more than 70000 defines in DevStudio\Include\*.h?

Preferences
 a) Which tags to find:
     class, enum, struct, and union names
     typedefs
     names defined by #define
     enumerators (enumerated values)
     function definitions, prototypes, and declarations
     variables (definitions and declarations)
     class, struct, and union members
     file names
     includes.
 b) Files to search in:
   "headers" - *.h, *.hpp
   "sources" - *.cpp, *.c
 c) Additional Directory
 d) Update information:
   "manual" - only when you run <Update> method
   "auto" - when you try to use tags base for the first time after opening of Visual Studio.
 

Find tag

Preferences
  Unix-style or Windows-style regular expressions.
  What tags to find ("class","struct", "function","enum","enum const","union","define","interface","member","typedef","variable","extern", "file","include").

Session Manager

Favorites

Insert Include

Of course you can run <Insert Include> method before getting error and type "MyObject" in input dialog.

Build And Run

AutoSave

Toggle files

Windows Manager

Preferences
  You can remove columns with directory,extension,time.
  Close or not dialog immediately after selecting a file.

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