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These are tutorials on how to extend Sider. If you are interested in developing for Sider this is a good place to start.

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When creating Sider modules you will have to write a lot manually: text (if you are going to analyze the module in writing), XML, XSLT and JavaScript files. Notepad that comes with Windows can be used for that, but it's too simple in my opinion. If you want syntax highlight you could use Notepad2 or http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/ Notepad++. Both are free. I usually use Visual Studio to edit XML and jEdit to work with JavaScript.

You will also need to generate GUIDs. I use Visual Studio for that. You could also try Google for it.

Eventually we will have tools to assist with creating Sider modules. For now you will need to edit code manually.