Slickedit v11

I recently upgraded my copy of SlickEdit. I bought version 8, and then as part of the maintenance agreement received version 9. This was, I think, before full .NET support was built in. I did not renew, simply because I was not doing coding work at the time. Now that I’ve been programming in C#, and may actually start a project with it, I figured it was time to get up to date. Also, I’m going to be taking an Advanced Java Programming course in the Spring, and figured that it would be nice to have a good editor for that.

I first heard about SlickEdit from a guy that was working on a Java program where I worked at the time.

So far, my thoughts on version 11 are positive. I like the fact that I can tell it to create a new Java project, and it will create a skeleton class with several buttons and menus. I also like the fact that it can read the Visual Studio project files. It is great to be able to work with so many different versions of code and Visual Studio (for instance, on my work laptop, I have VS 6.0, 2005 Express, 2003 Enterprise, and JDK 1.5). I can have SlickEdit use the appropriate headers and information, and work with projects created in different tools.

If you haven’t checked out using a code editor, you might want to give SlickEdit a try.