How to view binary files using Notepad++

Notepad++ is must have tool for computer professionals that supports many file formats. It can be downloaded for free and after installation can be found in the right click menu for quickly opening a file. Notepad++ is similar to notepad as it is lightweight and quick. But it offers much more :-    

• It can be used to open many file formats usually used in computer programming. For example you want to quickly edit a .c or a .java file you can to so using notepad++ quickly instead of waiting for Turbo c++ IDE or Netbeans IDE to open.

• It uses different colors to show different syntactical elements of a programming language. That makes it easy to read and find mistakes in the written program.

Notepad++ can also open binary file formats such as image files etc. and display it in hex format provided the HexEditor.dll plugin in installed with it. This plugin is also free to download and install and after installing a H button pops up in Notepad++ tool bar. Using this tool hexadecimal data can be viewed or modified.
  
A binary file can be viewed, modified and saved back in the same format using this tool. Notepad++ also offers to integrate compilers with it so that the program files can be directly compiled and executed form its menu.