Stingray Software Announces Visual CASE 1.0.RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK Research Triangle Park, research, business, medical, and educational complex situated in central North Carolina. It has an area of 6,900 acres (2,795 hectares) and is 8 × 2 mi (13 × 3 km) in size. Named for the triangle formed by Duke Univ. , N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 8, 1997-- The First Visual Modeling/CASE Tool Designed for Real-world Visual C++ Development Stingray stingray: see ray. stingray or whip-tailed ray Any of various species (family Dasyatidae) of rays noted for their slender, whiplike tail with barbed, usually venomous spines. Software, Inc. announced the release of Visual CASE 1.0, a tool that accelerates Visual C++ development by providing developers with a graphical, object-oriented view of their projects. "Currently the Visual C++ environment does not allow developers to visually create and manipulate objects. Visual CASE is the first modeling product that is focused on the Visual C++ environment and providing complete MFC/ATL support in both the code generation and reverse engineering modules," said Scot Wingo, co-founder of Stingray Software. "The full round trip engineering support allows Visual C++ developers to use the product during the complete development cycle of their Windows application A program that is written to run under Microsoft's Windows operating system. Such applications typically run under all 32-bit versions of Windows, but earlier applications might also run under the 16-bit versions (Windows 3.x) as well. See Windows. - from design to implementation." Features of Visual CASE 1.0 include: -- 100% Visual C++ compatible: Fully supports and understands Microsoft developer technologies such as MFC (Microsoft Foundation Class) An application framework for writing Microsoft C/C++ and Visual C++ applications. See application framework. MFC - Microsoft Foundation Class , ATL (Active Template Library) A set of software routines from Microsoft that provide the basic framework for creating ActiveX and COM objects. Stemming from the standard template library (STL) that comes with C++ compilers, ATL includes an object wizard that sets up , ActiveX and OLE/COM. The Visual CASE App Wizard allows the developer to export generated code into Microsoft Developer's Studio. -- Reverse engineering: Visual CASE can import existing projects and provide the user with a graphical representation that can be manipulated. -- Code Generation: The developer can graphically manipulate projects using Visual CASE (either from scratch or reverse engineered) and then generate MFC/ATL source code for Visual C++. -- Round trip engineering: The combination of reverse engineering and code generation give the developer the ability to use the tool throughout the development cycle and in concert with Visual C++. -- UML (Unified Modeling Language) An object-oriented analysis and design language from the Object Management Group (OMG). Many design methodologies for describing object-oriented systems were developed in the late 1980s. support: Visual CASE supports a subset of the industry standard Unified Modeling Language See UML. (language) Unified Modeling Language - (UML) A non-proprietary, third generation modelling language. The Unified Modeling Language is an open method used to specify, visualise, construct and document the artifacts of an object-oriented software-intensive system (UML) that is appropriate for Visual C++ development. -- Support for Stingray's Objective Toolkit and Objective Grid: Visual CASE comes with complete templates for these products and allows the developer to design with the objects in these Stingray libraries. To actually use the objects, the user must purchase the complete libraries separately. The retail cost of Visual CASE is $695. The product includes 60 days of support and 30 day money back guarantee. Subscriptions are available for $295 which extend support to a year and include updates for a year. Stingray Software, Inc., based in Research Triangle Park, N.C., develops, markets, and supports developer tools aimed at object- oriented programming environments. For more information, contact Stingray Software at 800-924-4223 or 919-461-0672, fax 919-461- 9811 or email sales@stingsoft.com; or visit Stingray's Web site at http://www.stingsoft.com . Visual CASE is a trademark of Stingray Software, Inc. Visual C++ is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation (company) Microsoft Corporation - The biggest supplier of operating systems and other software for IBM PC compatibles. Software products include MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Microsoft Access, LAN Manager, MS Client, SQL Server, Open Data Base Connectivity (ODBC), MS Mail, in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and other countries. All other brand names are trademarks of their respective companies. CONTACT: Stingray Software Shannon Stamey E-mail: shannons@stingsoft.com or Suzanne McKenzie Email: suzanne@stingsoft.com 919-461-0672 x109 |
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