ActiveState Supports New Microsoft Visual Studio Industry Partner -VSIP- Program; Innovative Marketing and Licensing Facilitates Outreach to Millions of Programmers.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 29, 2003 ActiveState(TM), the leader in professional programming tools for open source developers, today announces its participation in the new 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 Industry Partner (VSIP VSIP Visual Studio Industry Partner (Microsoft) VSIP Vietnam Singapore Industrial Park VSIP Visual Studio Integration Program (Microsoft) VSIP Voluntary Separation Incentive Program ) program. The VSIP program provides ActiveState with deep technical and marketing resources for its Visual Perl, Visual Python Python, in Greek mythology Python, in Greek mythology, a huge serpent. In some myths the infant Apollo slew Python at the oracle of Gaea in Delphi; in others Apollo killed the serpent in order to claim the oracle for himself. , 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). plug-ins. These productivity tools for Perl, Python, and XSLT offer powerful, language-specific features within the familiar 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. 2003 environment, supplying ease of use and accelerated development cycles to programmers This is a list of programmers notable for their contributions to software, either as original author or architect, or for later additions. See also: Game programmer, List of computer scientists . The VSIP program enabled ActiveState to deliver some of the first Visual Studio .NET plug-ins in December 2000. Customer endorsement has been extremely strong, with ActiveState supplying tens of thousands of downloads since the launch. With the new program's enhanced licensing and co-marketing opportunities, ActiveState will increase visibility and product adoption with the millions of Visual Studio .NET 2003 developers. Programmer enthusiasm is reflected in the words of Don Box, editor of GotDotNet, and prominent XSLT developer, architect, and educator. Says Box, "Visual XSLT rocks! After spending over an hour fighting a bug in XSLT, I finally gave up and downloaded the plug-in. I was totally blown away. The ability to use the Visual Studio .NET 2003 debugging (programming) debugging - The process of attempting to determine the cause of the symptoms of malfunctions in a program or other system. These symptoms may be detected during testing or use by real users. shell was nice, but the fact that the debugger Software that helps a programmer debug a program by stopping at certain breakpoints and displaying various programming elements. The programmer can step through source code statements one at a time while the corresponding machine instructions are being executed. not only kept track of the current line in the XSLT, but also the context node from the source document, was exceptionally cool. Naturally, I found the bug within five minutes." "The combination of broad, affordable marketing programs, with essential technology, great documentation, and excellent support, made the initial roll-out of our plug-ins very smooth," said Matt Herdon, Director of Product Management, Tools and Languages, ActiveState. "The new program offers even better flexibility and value, and we're really looking forward to participating." "Microsoft is excited to offer these expanded marketing opportunities and the continued deep technical information and support to our partners through the new VSIP program," said Susanne Peterson, director for the Developer and Platform Evangelism Evangelism Gantry, Elmer fire and brimstone, fraudulent revivalist. [Am. Lit.: Elmer Gantry] John disciple closest to Jesus. [N.T.: John] Luke early Christian; the “beloved physician.” [N.T. Division at Microsoft Corp. "This program will enable our industry partners to deliver benefits and productivity increases to our mutual customers." Visual Perl, Visual Python, and Visual XSLT are included in the value-priced bundle: ActiveState Open Source Language Suite for Visual Studio .NET, for $495. The three plug-ins, as well as the Perl Dev Kit and Perl ASPX ASPX Active Server Page Framework (Microsoft) ASPX Active Server Plus Pages , are also available individually. Free, 21-day trial licenses; educational licenses, and more information are at: www.ActiveState.com/Products/Dot_Net. About ActiveState Corp. ActiveState is the leading provider of software solutions that increase productivity and organizational efficiency through the innovative use of open source technology. Additional information on ActiveState's industrial strength anti-spam software for enterprises and programming tools for open source language developers is available at: www.ActiveState.com. ActiveState, Perl ASPX, Perl Dev Kit, Visual Perl, Visual Python, and Visual XSLT are trademarks of ActiveState Corp. All other company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. (C) ActiveState Corporation 2003. |
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