Improved database toolset. (New Products & Services).A major upgrade of Visual CE Personal Edition, the database and forms development toolset designed specifically for building customized forms and databases on Windows CE (Windows Consumer Electronics) Microsoft's version of Windows for handheld devices and embedded systems that use x86, ARM, MIPS and SHx CPUs. Windows CE .NET superseded Windows CE 3.0. and Pocket PC handheld computers A computing device that can be easily held in one hand while the other hand is used to operate it. The Palm devices are a popular example. See Palm, smartphone and palmtop. , adds numerous features that were previously available only in the higher-end Visual CE Professional Edition. In addition to the existing array of forms design and synchronization (1) See synchronous and synchronous transmission.(2) Ensuring that two sets of data are always the same. See data synchronization. (3) Keeping time-of-day clocks in two devices set to the same time. See NTP. functions, Personal Edition version 7 offers relational capabilities, real-time wireless access to server data, macros, GPS support and 48 new numeric, string and date functions. It also supports complete control of images, allowing pictures to be integrated into any Visual CE database. Version 7 integrates with mEnable, the wireless architecture that extends hand-held applications with real-time, interactive access to server data. Visual CE with mEnable allows mobile devices to be integrated with enterprise business processes by reading from or writing to any ODBC-enabled data source, including Microsoft Access A database program for Windows, available separately or included in the Microsoft Office suite. Access is programmable using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). Access can read Paradox, dBASE and Btrieve files, and using ODBC, Microsoft SQL Server, SYBASE SQL Server and Oracle data. or SQL Server An earlier relational DBMS from Sybase and from Microsoft. Sybase introduced SQL Server in 1988 for various Unix versions. In that same year, with help from IBM, Sybase created an OS/2 version that Microsoft licensed and branded as Microsoft SQL Server. , Oracle or Sybase. SYWARE Inc., Cambridge, MA www.rsleads.com/302ht-188 or Circle 188 |
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