Use Sumatra as a pre-viewer for LaTeX editors

You can use DDE commands from TeX and LaTeX editors to use Sumatra as a pre-viewer.

TeXnicCenter

Detailed instructions: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/116981/how-to-configure-texniccenter-2-0-with-sumatra-2013-2016-version

Short instructions:

Configure viewer in output profiles.

Path of executable: C:\Program Files\SumatraPDF\SumatraPDF.exe on (or wherever you've installed SumatraPDF)
View project's output
- DDE command: [Open("%bm.pdf",0,1,1)]
- Server: SUMATRA
- Topic: control
Forward Search
- DDE command: [ForwardSearch("%bm.pdf","%Wc",%l,0,0,1)]
- Server: SUMATRA
- Topic: control

Some people reported better results when using %sbm instead of %bm in the above command.

Close document before running LaTeX: Do not close
To enable the inverse search, you also have to append to the LaTeX compiler arguments: -synctex=1