Welcome to the IDL Workbench

The IDL Workbench is a new graphical interface to IDL that replaces the IDL Development Environment included with IDL versions prior to 7.0. The IDL Workbench provides powerful code development and debugging tools in a cross-platform interface that looks and behaves the same way on all platforms supported by IDL.

The following sections give you a quick introduction to the IDL Workbench, and provide links to additional resources: