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Architectures Rebooted
Understand lets you virtually reorganize your code through abstract hierarchies called Architectures. Different teams use Architectures for many different a...
Mon, 4 Oct, 2021 at 10:39 AM
Combined Language Analysis
With Combined Language Analysis, Understand can handle code bases written in multiple languages, such as C++ and Java, or Ada combined with FORTRAN. Mos...
Mon, 4 Oct, 2021 at 11:00 AM
Compare Two Understand Projects
Do you need to see what has changed in your project since your last check-in? Understand shows you the differences that you want to know about. First, i...
Mon, 4 Oct, 2021 at 10:55 AM
Contextual Information
Understand™ makes it easy to learn more about your code as you move around the editor in a source file. Information about the source file being examined is ...
Fri, 1 Oct, 2021 at 12:06 PM
Dependency Browser
We’ve had code dependency analysis in Understand for many years and have consolidated it into a functional area of the tool, improved what it does, and also...
Fri, 1 Oct, 2021 at 12:00 PM
Git Integration
Git Integration is a convenient and powerful way for Understand users to view commit history and other Git information directly in their source code. With G...
Fri, 1 Oct, 2021 at 12:15 PM
Information Browser
Just about everything Understand knows about code is shown in the Information Browser (IB). The IB is used for all types of entities and it shows different ...
Fri, 1 Oct, 2021 at 12:19 PM
Java Spring Support
Support for Java Spring has been released in Understand build 1168. The current support is limited to Spring Annotations (it does not support XML configurat...
Tue, 23 Jan, 2024 at 5:57 PM
Spellchecking Your Code and Comments
With Understand 6.3 we added a new spellchecking feature to Understand. By default, it will check your comments for misspelled words and underline with a sq...
Wed, 18 Jan, 2023 at 9:31 AM
Understand Context Menu in EMACS, Visual Studio and Vi
In Using Understand with an external editor – SlickEdit we explain how to hook up Understand to run with SlickEdit. As a follow up, here are the commands to...
Mon, 4 Oct, 2021 at 11:11 AM