Eclipse Whirlwind Tour?

Question

Does anyone know of an Eclipse whirlwind tour that will help a (former) Visual Studio user get on their feet?

I just want something that tells me where all the basic functions are and that all the cool things I've heard so much about are there?

So far I have used it mainly as a text editor, and it had some kind of successful compilation and launch of programs. But ... I'm a little confused, for example, sometimes I can not exit debug mode.

I am sure that I'm just not looking for all the places, because I'm used to a different interface.

Are there any plugins for Eclipse that make it look like Visual Studio?

I am using Europa at the moment because it is what the rest of my team is using, although I am more than happy to switch to Ganemede ...

Answer 1

Try it Help -> Help Contents(no jokes) and read Workbench User Guide:

In particular, the chapter Concepts.

The same chapter also works very well in Java Development User Guide

I am sure that after reading these few pages you already know more than the average Eclipse user (because in this case it is necessary Help?).

Answer 2

Try http://help.eclipse.org/help32/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.platform.doc.user/concepts/welcome.htm if you cannot access the help directly from Eclipse.

In addition, IBM has an Introduction to Eclipse for Visual Studio users (although I have never used visual studio, so I cannot evaluate its usefulness).