Visual InterDev s Role in Visual Studio

Visual InterDev 6 is available both as a stand-alone product and as part of Visual Studio 6. Visual InterDev 6 fully interoperates with the other tools in Visual Studio, including Microsoft FrontPage, Visual Basic, Microsoft Visual J++, Microsoft Visual C++, and other Microsoft technologies. As a key component of Visual Studio, Visual InterDev 6 is used to integrate components and applications created with other Visual Studio tools into seamless Web applications.

Visual Studio provides the "shell," or framework, that hosts Visual InterDev 6. Aspects of the Visual InterDev interface, such as the Project Explorer and Toolbox, are actually part of Visual Studio and are shared by several Visual Studio applications as well as by Visual InterDev. For example, Visual J++ also uses the Project Explorer and Toolbox features of the interface.

Microsoft Visual Studio is a complete development tools suite that provides a network programmer with easy-to-use tools for building solutions. Visual Studio is available in two editions: Professional Edition, which includes the core development tools that noncorporate developers are likely to use, and Enterprise Edition, which includes all the features of Professional Edition plus other tools and technologies that are needed in enterprise development. The following extensive list includes all of the Enterprise Edition's components:

• Visual Basic 6, Enterprise Edition
• Visual C++ 6, Enterprise Edition
• Visual InterDev 6, Enterprise Edition
• Visual J++ 6, Enterprise Edition
• Microsoft Visual FoxPro 6, Enterprise Edition
• Microsoft Visual Modeler 2
• Microsoft Repository 2
• Visual Studio Analyzer
• Visual Component Manager
• Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 6
• Enterprise Visual Database tools:

• New schema design tools, including support for Oracle 7.x and later and SQL Server 6.5 and later
• Stored Procedure and function editor for Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle
• Stored Procedure debugging for SQL Server 6.5 and later
• ODBC and OLE DB drivers for SQL Server, Oracle, SNA VSAM (Virtual Storage Access Method), and DB/2 databases (AS400 and mainframe)

• SQL Server 6.5, Developer Edition
• SNA Server 4, Developer Edition
• Microsoft Windows NT 4 Option Pack (Internet Information Server 4, Microsoft Transaction Server 2, Message Queue Server 1)
• Microsoft BackOffice Server 4.5, Developer Edition (SQL Server, Exchange Server, Systems Management Server, SNA Server, Windows NT Server, Windows NT Option Pack, Proxy Server, Site Server, and the BackOffice Server Service Packs)
• Visual Studio 6 Service Packs—via fulfillment
• MSDN Library

Visual Studio 6 is a powerful collection of development tools to allow you to build almost any type of application. The inclusion of the BackOffice development tools adds the ability to build enterprise applications and to test them in a workstation environment. Then you can deploy the applications in a full production environment.