This is a short tutorial about how to install and use Code Summarizer. This tutorial is short, but important. For more information, please check with detailed document.

Setup

After download the software package (int a .zip file), please unzip it using any popular unzip software, like Winzip. There are two files: CSInstaller.msi is a Windows Installer file, including the main setup package. Setup.exe is a wrapper program that handles prerequisite like .Net Framework. Please run Setup.exe to install Code summarizer. Before starting install, please make sure: 1. Visual Studio 2005 is installed on your computer; 2. All instances of Visual Studio are not currently running. In case you have Code Summarizer installed before, and installer complains install cannot continue before there is former version installed, you need to go to Control Panel -> Add/Remove program -> find Code Summarizer and remove it first.

Change Font

To get the desired visual effect, please change your Windows font effect to Clear Type instead of Standard. Here is
how: Right click on Desktop -> Properties -> Appearance tab -> Effects -> Check “use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts”, select ClearType.

Make Sure Your Code Summarizer Is in Position

You have installed Code Summarizer, now start Visual Studio 2005, Code Summarizer is supposed to be another tab together with Solution Explorer tool window. If not, do this to make it visible:  in menu View -> Other windows -> Code Summarizer. Code Summarizer tool windows will appear as a tab by the Solution Explorer windows. If it is in floating mode or in a wrong position, drag the window and drop it to be docked as a tab beside Solution Explorer windows.

Activate

Any downloaded Code Summarizer VS package is in trial state by default. You have the full functionality for 30 days.
After that you need to go to www.seinative.com to purchase a product ID in order to continue to use this program. After acquiring product ID, right click on Code Summarizer map view area -> Activate Code Summarizer -> then input 
Name and Product ID to activate this package. Now Code Summarizer is in active state for ever until you download and install it another time.

Use Code Summarizer - Important Tips

You need to remember the following tips in order to use Code Summarizer properly:
1. Press Shift key while moving cursor on Code Summarizer map view to browse code.
2. Press and hold Ctrl key while rotating mouse wheel on map view to zoom in/out by font size.
3. Press and hold Alt key while rotating mouse wheel on map view to zoom in/out by code structure.
4. Press and hold Alt key and click on map view margin area to goto specific line in Visual Studio code window.
5. On the top panel, input line number in the textbox, press and hold Ctrl key and click GO button to move current line to the specified line.
6. Double click any line on the left margin of map view, caret goes to the line in the code window. To show where you are in the code windows, right click on map view -> Show Viewport, or Show Caret.