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Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 is the single fastest way to develop applications for any of the modern Microsoft Windows environments, period. This is the world's best-known Rapid Application Development (RAD) environment, quite stable at this point in its long career. By making extensive use of drag-and-drop component assembly, boilerplate wizards, form-based graphical user interface (GUI) design, and dozens of less obvious laborsaving features, this Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is almost certainly the fastest way to get your custom Windows software off the design team's whiteboard and into operation.
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Nearly all world-class software, from the leading Web browsers to mission-critical corporate applications, is built using the Microsoft Visual C++ development system. Visual C++is the most productive C++ tool used in the highest-performance development for Windows and the Web. Visual C++ 6.0 brings a new level of productivity to C++, without sacrificing flexibility, performance, or control.
This package is complemented by the inclusion of: Microsoft Developer Network Library. The library is teeming with information--get started with a selection of tutorials, or reference the user's or programmer's guides. All topics are covered here, including plenty of information on the Microsoft foundation classes.
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Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 is Microsoft's all-purpose suite of tools for
developing all kinds of software for its Windows platforms (including Windows 2000),
network resources for the Web, and combinations of the two. These development aids
typically have steep learning curves (as does the Windows environment itself with
Microsoft's tool set). Once you've done a bit of work with them (and perhaps studied
a book or
taken a
class)
, they're unsurpassed in the degree of control they give you
over your Windows development projects. Five main development tools comprise Visual Studio:
Visual Basic 6.0
Visual C++ 6.0
Visual J++ 6.0
Visual FoxPro 6.0
Visual InterDev 6.0