Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 development system is a complete suite of tools that meets both technical and business requirements for enterprise development.
Get a jump on component-based development.
Reduce development time by building components that can be easily reused across a wide range of business applications. Leverage your existing skills by choosing the development language you already knowùVisual Basic«, Visual C++«, Java, or Visual FoxPro« to build components that
can be seamlessly integrated with components created in other programming languages.
Reduce maintenance costs by centralizing business components on middle-tier Windows NT«ûbased serversùenabling quick and easy updates to business logic with no
need to distribute components to desktop PCs.
Improve application scalability by taking advantage of distributed processing and Microsoft Transaction Server, part of Windows NT Server.
Improve team productivity using the Visual Component Manager to easily find, track, and catalog components as they are developed.
Easily integrate your applications with a wide range of commercially available components and applications provided by hundreds of independent software vendors.
Use tools for enterprise database development.
Create database applications faster than ever with point-and-click data programming tools based on ActiveX« Data Objects 2.0 (ADO 2.0), which combine sophisticated data development features with unprecedented
ease of use.
Rapidly design Oracle and Microsoft SQL ServerTM databases with graphical tools for creating tables, relationships, stored procedures, and database functions.
Access a wide range of enterprise databases, with built-in connectivity to Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Access, Microsoft FoxPro«, Oracle, and IBM mainframe and AS/400 databases, as well as connectivity through ODBC to most other databases.
Create powerful, data-driven Web sites and Windows-based applications using the new drag-and-drop Data Environment.
Quickly build, test, and integrate sophisticated SQL statements using the Query Designer.
Manage the development lifecycle with ease.
Design efficient application architectures using the Microsoft Visual Modeler, and automatically generate code from the application designs.
Maximize productivity with visual development environments that allow for drag-and-drop components, customizable menus and toolbars, property windows, and custom macro support.
Leverage your knowledge base from tool to tool all the development environments in Visual Studio share a common look and feel.
Code quickly with IntelliSense« Technology that provides built-in syntax and programming assistance in the source code editor.
Discover "end-to-end" debugging support, which provides visual debugging across languages, and includes client- and server-side debugging, with point-and-click breakpoints, drag-and-drop watch windows, and multiple call stacks.
Reduce deployment costs with package and deployment wizards for the automatic deployment of applications and components to both client and server computers.
Improve application performance with the Visual Studio Analyzer, a graphical performance analysis tool for analyzing distributed applications.
Maximize team productivity.
Efficiently organize large, team-based development efforts, and benefit from key technologies for team design, coding, and component management.
Secure source code in team-based projects with the Microsoft Visual SourceSafeTM 6.0 version control system, including complete source code control for components, applications, and Web sites.
Catalog and share components, specifications, documentation, and other project elements across team members using the Microsoft Visual Component Manager and Microsoft Repository.
Empower geographically dispersed teams to work together to build Web applications using a distributed project model that works over the Web.
Take programming to the Internet.
Develop any level of Internet application using the Windows NT Server Internet Information Server 4.0 services, from single-step Web page publication to creating sophisticated transaction-enabled applications.
Incorporate advanced functionality into your Web application using Active ServerTM Pages and server components created in Visual Basic, Visual C++, Visual J++TM, or Visual FoxPro. The applications can be easily accessed from any browser, on any platform.
Build dynamic, interactive Web pages by taking advantage of Dynamic HTML using the Visual InterDevTM WYSIWYG editor, with drag-and-drop visual assembly of thin-client Web user interfaces.
Debug client-side and server-side script and components from an integrated debugger.
Enable non-programmers and developers to work hand-in-hand on Web sites with full interoperability between Web projects worked on in the Microsoft FrontPage« and Visual Studio Web site creation and management tool.
