Neuron Developer Studio is a set of developer tools combined in an Explorer style user interface. It provides a set of viewers for various file formats used in software development. The viewers expose the binary data structure of the files and allow extraction of data from them. Workspace and Files tabs are providing two different views of the files stored on the disk. ODBC tab shows all database sources registered on the computer, and tables and other objects contained in these sources. Registry tab simply contains a view of the registry. Win32 tab contains major system DLLs and provides easy access for viewing. Edit and build C++ programs using free Microsoft Visual Toolkit 2003. Compile Visual C++ projects (DSW and DSP). Edit, build and debug Java programs. Source Code Analysis : C, C++, Java, C#, Visual Basic, COBOL. DLL, OCX and EXE viewing and disassembling. Resource viewing, conversion and extraction for PE files (DLL, EXE, OCX). Java .CLASS viewing and disassembling Search for text across source code file formats and directories. ODBC Browser. HTML, XML, DTD viewers. Image and media file binary structure viewers. Misc file binary structure viewers: structured storage, Outlook Express. Compression File Formats : ZIP, JAR, CAB, TAR, GZ etc. Simple IDE for viewing, editing and building Java classes.
Pluses: Version 1.0 b7 adds support for CYGWIN development environment, adds multi-tab editor and sample code.
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In conclusion: Stable, reliable, fully functional and generally spaking, a very good developer's tool.
