Eiffel Software Announces Release of Eiffel ENViSioN! Eiffel-Language Plug-In for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET

Santa Barbara, California -- (September 24, 2002) --
Eiffel Software today announced to the worldwide programming community the production release of Eiffel ENViSioN!, its new Eiffel-language plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET.

The Eiffel Development Framework is widely known as a powerful system for creating fast, robust, scalable applications and reusable components. By basing their designs on reusable, robust business objects with Eiffel, developers have been demonstrating productivity increases on the order of 2 to 10 times that which they can do with other popular languages. But the Eiffel language has traditionally been available only within Eiffel Softwares multi-platform development environment, EiffelStudio. With todays release of Eiffel ENViSioN!, it is now available for developers using Microsoft Visual Studio .NET.

For years, 'Eiffel has been synonymous with quality software and business-critical applications -- and youve needed EiffelStudio to use it. But for millions of developers, Microsoft Visual Studio .NET is the preferred environment. Now, those developers can access the power of the Eiffel language from within Visual Studio .NET," said Chris Ambarian, Exec VP of Sales and Marketing at Eiffel Software. The combination of Eiffel ENViSioN! and Visual Studio .NET enables developers to efficiently create extremely scalable, robust applications."

Microsoft is pleased to see this seamless integration of Eiffel Software with Visual Studio .NET," said Sam Henry, technical product manager for the Developer Platform and Evangelism Division at Microsoft Corp. Eiffel ENViSioN! enables their developers to use design tools like Design by Contract and multiple inheritance from within Visual Studio .NET."

Features of Eiffel ENViSioN! include:

•   Fully integrated with the Visual Studio .NET integrated development environment
•   A fast, efficient compiler, designed to fully support all of the Eiffel languages supported by Visual Studio .NET
•   Class and feature browsing
•   EiffelBuild -- Eiffel Softwares multi-platform GUI builder
•   Auto-Documentation
•   Compatibility and signature capability with Visual Studio .NET
•   XML support
•   Several Eiffel code libraries

According to Eiffel Software, the Eiffel language is among the easiest to learn of all programming languages. Passive support for users new to the language is available from the company website, where there are also links to the many Eiffel user groups worldwide.

Availability:

The new release of Eiffel ENViSioN! has already begun shipping to Eiffel Softwares existing customers, and is available immediately via the companys website, www.eiffel.com. Onsite training and consulting are also available from the company by inquiring at sales@eiffel.com.
Eiffel Software (a division of ISE) is the world leader in Eiffel pure object-oriented programming tools. Founded in 1985, Eiffel Software produces proven professional tools and component libraries for business-critical and enterprise software developments. Eiffel Softwares products enable their customers to output more and higher-quality software in less time than with any other development tools available. Its users span the globe, in industries ranging from large financial institutions, to technology manufacturing, to government and defense contractors, to health care providers and more.

Contact: Bill Navickas, Director of Marketing, +1-805-685-1006 x101, billn@eiffel.com.

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