VISUAL BASIC THIRD PARTY SUPPORT CUSTOM CONTROLS ADDE 17, Rue Louise Michel 92301 Levallois-Perret, France Contact: Xavier Ledur +33-1-47-58-78-41 Map Custom Control The Map Custom Control is a window in which one or more overlapped geographical maps (cities, countries, networks) can be displayed. Zooming and positioning functions will be integrated in the control. The custom control will be able to load maps from "Cartes et bases Windows," an existing MicrosoftR WindowsTM graphical environment map package. Sample maps from ADDE catalog will be integrated with this control. Available fourth quarter. Coromandel/ImageSoft 70-15 Austin Street, Third Floor Forest Hills, NY 11375 Contact: Edward Currie, Dorai Swamy 1-800-535-3267/1-800-245-8840 ObjecTrieve for Visual Basic ObjecTrieve/VB is an ISAM-based tool for Microsoft Windows and Visual Basic capable of storing and retrieving binary large objects (BLOBS)--such as scanned images, video, documents, bitmaps, etc. Implemented as custom controls, ObjecTrieve/VB helps Visual Basic developers easily manage application database information directly from the Visual Basic Toolbox. Crescent Software, Inc. 32 Seventy Acres West Redding, CT 06890 Contact: Ethan Winer 203/438-5300 QuickPak Professional for Windows QuickPak Professional for Windows contains custom controls and a general purpose set of utilities for use with Microsoft Visual Basic programming system. QuickPak Professional for Windows provides routines for quickly sorting and searching data, performing fast file operations, expression evaluation, and other useful tasks. Desaware 5 Town & Country Village #790 San Jose, CA 95128 Contact: Gabriel Appleman 213/943-3305 Custom Control Factory An interactive development tool for creating custom controls including Animated Pushbuttons, Multistate Buttons, enhanced buttons, checkbox and option button controls for the Visual Basic system. Drover Technologies 660 White Plains Road Tarrytown, NY 10591 Contact: John Clare 914/631-4942 Drover's ToolBox for Visual Basic A dynamic link library of 200 functions and several custom controls. FutureSoft 1001 South Dairy Ashford, Suite 203 Houston, TX 77077 Contact: Teri Taylor 713/496-9400 DynaComm Full line of communication from Asynchronous DEC Connectivity to IBM 3270 Connectivity. By midsummer, with each DynaComm product, Visual Basic system users will be able to visually link their applications to DynaComm using DynaComm Custom Controls. Hammerly Computer Services 414 Main Street Laurel, MD 20707 Contact: Wayne Hammerly 301/953-2191 ProBas VB ProBas VB is a general collection of modules, forms, controls, and DLLs for programmers using the Visual Basic system. ProBas VB also includes a full range of multimedia tools including drivers to control a VCR, video image capturing and compression, and multi-tasking MIDI driver. Instance Corporation 22634 N.E. 26th Court Redmond, WA 98053 Contact: Marillin Paris 206/868-0550 Database DLLs and custom controls for the Visual Basic system, available third quarter. INSYS 268 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine 75012 Paris, France Phone: +33-1-40-04-6-36 Insys Classes Insys Classes is a collection of Visual Basic programming system Custom Controls for business oriented, computing and communications applications, including: structured text fields (numeric, alphanumeric, masked input), hierarchical list boxes, structured list boxes, date/time management controls with spin buttons, CPIC control, and a simple spreadsheet control. Available in September 1991 in French and English versions. MicroHelp, Inc. 4636 Huntridge Drive Roswell, GA 30075 Contact: Mark Novisoff 404/594-1185 VB Tools Designed to add "pizazz" to Visual Basic programs, VB Tools includes numerous custom controls, graphics special effects, how to use Windows API services, utility modules, a program providing $INCLUDE capabilities, and more. OutRider Systems P.O. Box 271669 Houston, TX 77277-1669 Contact: Jim Nech 713/726-0386 ButtonTool With ButtonTool, developers can easily create many new button types and styles using bitmaps, icons and metafiles as backgrounds. Pinnacle Publishing P.O. Box 8099 Federal Way, WA 98003 Contact: David Johnson 1-800-231-1293 or 206/941-2300 Graphics Server for Visual Basic Graphics Server for Visual Basic is a custom control for integrating graphing and charting capabilities into Visual Basic applications. Include pie charts, bar charts and a variety of other graphs in 2D or 3D. Suggested retail price: $149. Raima Corporation 3245 164th Place S.E. Bellevue, WA 98007 Contact: Laura Peterson 206/747-5570 db_VISTA III Database Management System The db_VISTA III Database Management System combines both relational and network model database technologies for high-performance Visual Basic application development.. Raima is developing custom controls that will allow the direct creation and manipulation of database objects without the need to learn an additional Database Management System API. DATA ACCESS/CONNECTIVITY Aaerdeus, Inc. 302 College Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94306 Contact: Randy Burns 415/325-7529 SQL Express SQL Express is a dynamic link library and set of example programs that allow the Microsoft SQL Server to be used with Microsoft Visual Basic programming system. Attachmate 13231 S.E. 36th Street Bellevue, WA 98006 Contact: Posy Gering or Mike New 800/426-6283 Extra for Windows 3.2 Extra for Windows 3.2 gives Visual Basic developers access to IBM mainframes. Programs can be written to automatically integrate mainframe information with PC applications using DDE, DLL calls, and Visual Basic custom controls. Channel Computing, Inc. 53 Main Street Newmarket, NH 03857 Contact: Max Klein 603/659-2832 Forest & Trees Forest & Trees is a new Data Access and Reporting Tool that lets Visual Basic system users build an "electronic dashboard" to collect, combine, and automatically monitor information from a wide range of spreadsheets, database files and database servers. CNA Computer Systems Engineering, Inc. P.O. Box 70248 Bellevue, WA 98007 Contact: John Evans 206/861-4736 ConnX ConnX is a connectivity tool allowing record level communication between Visual Basic applications and VAX RMS files. Copia International 1342 Avalon Court Wheaton, MD 60187 Contact: Dorothy Gaden 708/682-8898 AccSys for Paradox AccSys for Paradox with the Microsoft Visual Basic programming system for Windows provides the programmer total control over Paradox table files, primary and secondary index files. Coromandel/ImageSoft 70-15 Austin Street, Third Floor Forest Hills, NY 11375 Contact: Edward Currie, Dorai Swamy 1-800-535-3267/1-800-245-8840 ObjecTrieve for Visual Basic ObjecTrieve/VB is an ISAM-based tool for Microsoft Windows and Visual Basic capable of storing and retrieving binary large objects (BLOBS)--such as scanned images, video, documents, bitmaps, etc. Implemented as custom controls, ObjecTrieve/VB helps Visual Basic developers easily manage application database information directly from the Visual Basic Toolbox. Integra SQL Integra SQL complements and extends the Visual Basic system by providing high-performance relational database functionality, including building, querying, updating and reporting of facilities. Digital Communications Associates, Inc. 1000 Alderman Drive Alpharetta, GA 30202-4199 Contact: Margaret Owens 404/442-4521 IRMA Workstation for Windows and CROSSTALK for Windows IRMA Workstation for Windows' (IWW) Standard IRMA Scripting Language and the Crosstalk products' Crosstalk Application Scripting Language (CASL) enable developers to write scripts that transfer information to and from mainframes or information services using Microsoft Visual Basic applications through dynamic data exchange (DDE). Distinct Corporation P.O. Box 3410 Saratoga, CA 95070-1410 Contact: Chris Apap-Bologna 408/741-0781 Distinct TCP/IP Software Development Kit Berkeley Sockets, RPC/XDR and NFS toolkit for the Microsoft Windows environment -- includes Visual Basic declarations. ETN Corporation RD4 Box 659 Montoursville, PA 17754-9433 Contact: Wynne Yoder 717/435-2202 PowerLibW PowerLibW is a function library (DLL) and DBMS server that provides dBASE and Clipper compatible I/O for the Microsoft Visual Basic programming system. FutureSoft 1001 South Dairy Ashford, Suite 203 Houston, TX 77077 Contact: Teri Taylor 713/496-9400 DynaComm By midsummer, with each DynaComm product, Visual Basic system users will be able to visually link their applications to DynaComm using DynaComm Custom Controls. Groupe Bull 7, Rue Ampere 91343 Massy, France Phone: +33-1-69-93-90-90 Affinity-Visual Affinity-Visual will fully integrate the Microsoft Visual Basic system with Bull's Affinity product. Affinity-Visual will provide full Windows environment 3.0 graphical display services to existing host applications throughout Bull environments. Microsoft Corporation One Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98027 Contact: Microsoft Inside Sales 800/227-4679 Visual Basic Library for SQL Server (SDK) Write Visual Basic applications for Microsoft SQL Server using the Visual Basic Library for SQL Server. Novell, Inc. 5918 West Courtyard Drive Austin, TX 78732 Contact: Mary K. Ellsworth 512/794-1488 Btrieve Novell's key-indexed record management system, compatible with the Visual Basic system. NetWare SQL Novell's relational database engine, which can be called from Visual Basic routines. Pioneer Software 5540 Centerview Drive, Suite 324 Raleigh, North Carolina 27608 Contact: Richard Holcomb 919/859-2220 Q+E Database Library Q+E Database Library allows Visual Basic applications to access data stored in most major PC, LAN and mainframe systems. Quadbase Systems, Inc. 790 Lucerne Drive, Suite 51 Sunnyvale, CA 94068 Contact: Fred Luk 408/738-6989 Quadbase-SQL for Windows Quadbase-SQL for Windows, a DLL (dynamic link library), is a full-featured, compact and high performance relational database engine for Visual Basic programmers to build single and/or multi- user applications that require advanced database features and industry standard SQL. Raima Corporation 3245 164th Place S.E. Bellevue, WA 98007 Contact: Laura Peterson 206/747-5570 db_VISTA III Database Management System The db_VISTA III Database Management System combines both relational and network model database technologies for high-performance Visual Basic application development. C source code is available and applications may be distributed royalty-free. SQLSoft 10635 N.E. 38th Place, Bldg. 24, Suite B Kirkland, WA 98942 Contact: James O'Farrell 206/822-1287 SQL SoftLink Dynamic data exchange (DDE) connectivity to Microsoft SQL Server. TechGnosis, Inc. One Park Place 621 N.W. 53rd Street, Suite 340 Boca Raton, FL 33487 Contact: Keith Toleman 407/997-6687 SequeLink Client-server data access for Visual Basic system. Provides access to OS/2, UNIX, VAX/VMS, and AS400 servers. Supported databases: Oracle, Sybase, Ingres, SQL Server, DBM, RDB, SQL 400. Wall Data Incorporated 17769 N.E. 78th Place Redmond, WA 98052 Contact: Barbara Curtis 206/646-8274 Rumba Software Development Kit Rumba Software Development Kit is a complete development environment that empowers Visual Basic developers to change how users interact with PC and host applications, combining advanced tools for creating connectivity links. Rumba Tools for DDE and Rumba Tools for EHLLAPI Rumba Tools for DDE and Rumba Tools for EHLLAPI enable advanced users to create simplified and transparent connectivity links between PCs and host computers. Rumba Tools for DDE allows Visual Basic applications to exchange data continuously with Rumba using DDE. Rumba Tools for EHLLAPI allows Visual Basic applications to exchange data with Rumba using EHLLAPI. LIBRARIES AND PROGRAMMING UTILITIES Autodesk, Inc. 2320 Marinship Way Sausalito, CA 94965 Autodesk Animation Player for Windows Permits Visual Basic users to add animation to their applications. This DLL plays industry-standard FLI and FLC animations at remarkable speed from hard disks or CD-ROMs Crescent Software, Inc. 32 Seventy Acres West Redding, CT 06890 Contact: Ethan Winer 203/438-5300 PDQComm for Windows PDQComm for Windows is a complete collection of routines that make it simple to add communications capabilities to programs written in Visual Basic. QuickPak Professional QuickPak Professional for Windows contains custom controls and a general purpose set of utilities for use with Visual Basic system. QuickPak Professional for Windows provides routines for quickly sorting and searching data, performing fast file operations, expression evaluation, and other useful tasks. Hammerly Computer Services 414 Main Street Laurel, MD 20707 Contact: Wayne Hammerly 301/953-2191 ProBas VB ProBas VB is a general collection of modules, forms, controls, and DLLs for programmers using the Visual Basic system. ProBas VB also includes a full range of multimedia tools including drivers to control a VCR, video image capturing and compression, and multi-tasking MIDI driver. ProMath VB ProMath VB is a collection of over 150 high-level scientific and engineering functions for the Visual Basic system. Kofax Image Products 3 Jenner Street Irvine, CA 92718 Contact: Karen Allen 714/474-9111 Kofax Image Processing Platform (KIPP) KIPP comprises application-development software and controller boards, compatible with the Visual Basic system, that serve as the foundation for creating PC-based document image processing applications and systems. MicroHelp, Inc. 4636 Huntridge Drive Roswell, GA 30075-2012 Contact: Mark Novisoff 404/594-1185 VB Tools VB Tools is designed to add "pizazz" to Visual Basic programs. VB Tools includes numerous custom controls, graphics special effects, how to use Windows API services, utility modules, a program providing $INCLUDE capabilities and more. MicroHelp Communications Library MicroHelp Communications Library offers easy to use communications routines for Visual Basic invoked exactly like SubPrograms and Functions, including automatic file transfer routines using XModem, XModem CRC, YModem, YModem-Batch, ZModem, CompuServe B and ASCII transfers. MicroHelp Muscle MicroHelp Muscle is a library for the professional programmer that includes hundreds of assembly language routines and several high-level Visual Basic routines. National Instruments 6504 Bridge Point Parkway Austin, TX 78730-5039 Contact: Ron Wolfe or Holly Matheny 512/794-0100 NI-488.2 Windows Interface for Visual Basic NI-488.2 Windows Interface for Visual Basic links a Visual Basic application to the NI-488.2 Windows GPIB driver software. Allows Visual Basic users to develop programs to control thousands of industry- standard programmable instruments. Pinnacle Publishing, Inc. P.O. Box 8099 Federal Way, WA 98003-0099 Contact: David Johnson 206/941-2300 Graphics Server SDK Graphing and Charting Library/DDL for the Visual Basic system. R+R Associates, Inc. 39 Carwall Avenue Mount Vernon, NY 10552 Contact: Roland D. Joffe 914/668-4057 NoteQuest text retrieval software Provides text retrieval utility to Visual Basic developers. Offers a visual index for locating references in document databases. Silicon Valley Products, Corp. 8 Paquatuck Avenue East Moriches, NY 11940-0564 Contact: Paul Norris 516/878-6438 QuickLine A dynamic link library for use with the Visual Basic system to control TTI's telephone interface board for recording or playing messages, decoding telephone touch tones, and placement of calls. VideoLogic 245 First Street Cambridge, MA 02142 Contact: Karyn Scott 617/494-0530 DVA-4000/ISA VideoLogic's DVA-4000/ISA digital video adapter allows Visual Basic users to seamlessly integrate full-motion video with standard graphics and text in the Windows environment. Ward Systems Group, Inc. 245 W. Patrick Street Frederick, MD 21701 Contact: Marge Sherald 301/662-7950 NeuroWindows NeuroWindows is a neural network programming tool, designed to work with Microsoft's Visual Basic system, that builds powerful neural network applications which perform a wide variety of pattern recognition and prediction tasks. PUBLICATIONS AND SERVICES Bantam Computer Books 666 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10103 Contact: Jono Hardjowirogo 212/492-9826 Microsoft Visual Basic Power Tools A book oriented toward programmers with Basic experience interested in developing business solutions. The Cobb Group 9420 Bunsen Parkway, Suite 300 Louisville, KY 40220 Contact: Melissa Haeberlin 502/491-1900 Inside Visual Basic Inside Visual Basic, premiering in September for $59.00 a year, is a 16-page monthly journal providing tips and techniques for using the Visual Basic programming system. LTC Ltda. R. Vieira Bueno 21 - 20920 - Rio De Janeiro RJ - Brazil Contact: Sergio Martins +55-21-580-6055 Microsoft Visual Basic para Windows - teoria e pratica A book directed at those who have little experience with programming. Covers the Visual Basic language and provides an overview of the concepts involved: events, forms, structured programming, controls and GUIs. Microsoft Press One Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98052-6399 Contact: Craig Johnson 206/936-3895 The Microsoft Visual Basic Workshop This book and software package is a one-stop source of imaginitive and useful Visual Basic system forms and subprograms to use in Microsoft Windows applications. Microsoft University 10700 Northrup Way Bellevue, WA 98004-1447 206/828-1507 Microsoft University Visual Basic-- Advanced Topics course A 3-day course covering concepts needed to write sophisticated event-driven, graphical programs and design applications that integrate with DDE and Windows DLLs. Que (Macmillan Computer Publishing) 11711 North College Avenue Carmel, IN 46032 1-800-428-5331 Using Visual Basic A book for beginning and intermediate programmers who want to write Visual Basic applications. Includes advanced features such as DDE, as well as a complete keyword reference section. Sams (Macmillan Computer Publishing) 11711 North College Avenue Carmel, IN 46032 1-800-628-7360 First Book of Visual Basic A structured tutorial for the novice computer user covering the Visual Basic language and modern programming practice. Waite Group Press 100 Shoreline Highway, Suite A-285 Mill Valley, CA 94941 Contact: Ruth Myers 415/331-0575 Visual Basic How-To A book and disk package that contains hundreds of Visual Basic solutions from how to make an interface to how to use the Windows API functions. Microsoft and the Microsoft logo are registered trademarks and Visual Basic and Windows are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.