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| Customizable development
environment |
Increase productivity with
IntelliSense features such as Quick Info, DataTips, Complete Word,and List
Properties/Methods. They eliminate the need to memorize complex syntax, optional
arguments, and component properties. Plus, the new multiple-document interface (MDI)
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| Visual Basic, Applications
Edition, version 5.0 |
Use your Visual Basic skills
in Microsoft Office 97 and third-party applications licensing Visual Basic, Applications
Edition, because they use the same language and development environment that’s in
Visual Basic 5.0. |
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| Project templates, sample
projects, and Books Online |
Take advantage of new
technologies with project templates that set the properties for varying project types and
sample projects for reference. Books Online provides one-touch access to comprehensive
documentation. |
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| Sophisticated add-ins |
Build and manipulate class
modules, properties, events, and methods. Visually define ActiveX Control interfaces,
design property pages, and extrude subclassed control members. |
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| Multiple projects |
Develop and debug components
and applications that use those components simultaneously in one instance of Visual Basic
as easily as you create monolithic applications |
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| Interface and visual
inheritance |
Achieve a new degree of
productivity by subclassing and aggregating ActiveX Controls. Extend existing classes,
properties, events, and methods by inheriting interfaces from other class modules. |
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| ActiveX Control creation |
Create ActiveX Controls that
run in Visual Basic, Visual C++, Visual FoxPro, Microsoft Office, Web applications, and
any ActiveX-aware product. |
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| Rich set of standard controls |
Includes controls such as a
data-bound grid, check box, combo box, file list box, drive list box, common dialog, Web
Browser, WinSock, and more than 20 others. |
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| Application creation |
Compile and deploy
stand-alone applications, .EXEs, and .DLLs. |
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| Learn Visual Basic Now |
Jump-start the learning
process with a self-paced, instructional CD-ROM that includes multimedia video lessons,
narrated demonstrations, and hands-on lab exercises. |
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| Data access flexibility |
Enable your DAO applications
to achieve near-RDO performance when accessing ODBC data sources. DAO version 3.5 provides
enhanced capabilities for ISAM and ODBC data sources. |
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| Optimizing native code
compiler |
Build native code
applications and components that leverage the world-class compiler technology available in
Microsoft Visual C++. Applications created in version 5.0 run up to 20 times faster than
those in previous versions. |
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| Active Documents |
Create browser-based
applications from scratch or from existing Visual Basic applications that are hosted in
Microsoft Internet Explorer and installed automatically. |
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| ActiveX Components for
servers |
Create thread-safe and
high-performance multithreaded server components for maximum scalability. |
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| Microsoft Transaction Server,
Developer Edition |
Build three-tiered component
applications including integrated-transaction and object-management systems (for Windows
NT only). |
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| Native RISC support |
Build high-performance,
scalable applications and components that run natively on RISC platforms. |
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| Remote Data Objects (RDO)
version 2.0 |
Use RDO for high-speed ODBC
database access from Internet or client/server applications using an object-based
programming interface. |
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| TSQL Debugger |
Interactively debug SQL
Server stored procedures and triggers at the same time, and on the same workstation, as
you develop and debug Visual Basic-based applications. |
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| Microsoft SQL Server,
Developer Edition |
Build and test prototype SQL
Server 6.5 databases on your own LAN (for Windows NT only). |
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| Microsoft Visual SourceSafe |
Manage source code using an
integrated code management system: including Check In/Out, visual differencing, resource
sharing, and project histories for team development. |
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| Application Performance
Explorer (APE) |
Simulate and analyze
distributed application scenarios before committing to specific architectures and
implementations for optimum performance. |
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| Microsoft Visual Database
Tools |
Design and build logical and
physical databases—all with one integrated tool. Also use Database Tools to build and
fine-tune client-side queries and server-side data structures including tables, relations,
and stored procedures. |
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