ActiveState Development Tools Ship Simultaneously with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET; Perl, Python, & XSLT Programmers get Seamless Tool Integration.Business Editors SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 13, 2002 ActiveState, the leader in open source programming languages, today announced the 1.2 release of Visual Perl, Visual Python and Visual XSLT (eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation) Software that converts an XML document into another format such as HTML, PDF or text. It may also be used to convert one XML document to another XML document with a different set of XML tags (different schema). for Microsoft Visual Studio Microsoft Visual Studio is Microsoft's flagship software development product for computer programmers. It centers on an integrated development environment which lets programmers create standalone applications, web sites, web applications, and web services that run on any platforms .NET. Perl, Python, and XSLT programmers can now leverage the power of the Microsoft Visual Studio .NET Integrated Development Environment See IDE. integrated development environment - interactive development environment (IDE) and rapidly create, edit, debug To correct a problem in hardware or software. Debugging software means locating the errors in the source code (the program logic). Debugging hardware means finding errors in the circuit design (logical circuits) or in the physical interconnections of the circuits. and run programs with Visual Perl, Visual Python, and Visual XSLT. These releases now include full IntelliSense and source code control support. "These plug-ins are ideal tools for programmers using powerful languages such as Perl, Python, and XSLT," said Dick Hardt, Founder & CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , ActiveState. "Programmers can now use the language that best maps to the problem at hand and can leverage the advanced features in the Microsoft Visual Studio .NET IDE; such as the integrated help which makes online help of Perl and Python keywords and modules literally a single click away. As well, the graphical debugger makes drilling down into complex data structures trivially easy." "Visual Perl, Visual Python, and Visual XSLT fit ideally into the Visual Studio .NET A suite of programming languages and development tools from Microsoft that supports the .NET environment. Upon its introduction in 2001, it included Visual C# and .NET versions of Visual Basic and Visual C++. See .NET. model of allowing projects written in multiple languages to be developed at the same time," said Marie Huwe, General Manager for the Developer and Platform Evangelism Division at Microsoft Corp. "Microsoft is delighted to be working with ActiveState to provide a comprehensive programming solution that enables customers to use the languages that best fit their needs all within one integrated development environment." ActiveState's plug-ins provide a suite of development and deployment tools, including an editor, graphical debugger, dynamic help, and code completion (IntelliSense). Other key features include: -- Regular Expression debugger - a unique, visual interface for almost effortless debugging of powerful regular expressions -- XSLT debugger - takes the pain out of XSLT by making it simple to find problems in both input data and code -- XSLT automatic output preview - eliminates time-consuming steps so transformation results can be viewed immediately -- Source Code Control - industry-standard change management through SCC-compliant source code control -- XML Web services - consume XML Web services with Visual Perl "Visual Perl is the best IDE I have seen for coding in Perl. ActiveState has greatly simplified regular expression development. What was once a time consuming process of writing then debugging a regular expression has been turned into a fast and efficient process with the Rx Toolkit," said John Menke, Oracle Consultant, CSC Corporation. "Visual Perl's remote debugging feature is also great. I can write code on my development box, then deploy and continue to debug on my Oracle staging machine. I'd like to thank the Visual Perl development team for designing what has quickly become indispensable in my Perl toolkit." "A new feature in the 1.2 releases is support for source code control," said Eric Promislow, Technical Lead, ActiveState. "Programmers can now easily track and control changes to their programs with the leading version control systems such as Perforce per·force adv. By necessity; by force of circumstance. [Middle English par force, from Old French : par, by (from Latin per; see per) + force, force , CVS (1) (Concurrent Versions System) A version control system for Unix that was initially developed as a series of shell scripts in the mid-1980s. CVS maintains the changes between one source code version and another and stores all the changes in one file. , and Microsoft Visual SourceSafe Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (VSS) is a source control software package oriented towards smaller software development projects. Overview SourceSafe was created by a company called One Tree Software. The first version known was 3. ." "XSLT is a newer language, and while it has extremely powerful features for transforming XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. , it offers few diagnostic capabilities to let the developer know what the transformation is doing," said Paul Prescod, XML Technical Advisor, ActiveState. "The Visual XSLT debugger shows the developer exactly what the program is doing, and leverages features found throughout the Visual Studio .NET IDE, such as call stacks and variable display windows to explain why." Visual Perl, Visual Python, and Visual XSLT are $295 each. The upgrade is free to existing customers. Educational licenses are also available. Additional details, free evaluation copies and downloads are at ActiveState.com/VisualPerl, ActiveState.com/VisualPython and ActiveState.com/VisualXSLT. About ActiveState: ActiveState is the leading provider of open source based programming products and services for cross-platform development. ActiveState's key technologies are Perl, the internet's most popular programming language; Python and Tcl, user-friendly scripting languages; PHP (PHP Hypertext Preprocessor) A scripting language used to create dynamic Web pages. With syntax from C, Java and Perl, PHP code is embedded within HTML pages for server side execution. , the dynamic web programming language; and XSLT, the XML transformation language An XML transformation language is a computer language designed specifically to transform an input XML document into an output XML document which satisfies some specific goal. . (C) ActiveState Corporation 2002. ActiveState, Visual Perl, Visual Python and Visual XSLT are trademarks of ActiveState Corp. All other company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. |
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