Eiffel Software Announces Release of Eiffel ENViSioN! 1.1 Upgrade Eiffel-Language Plug-In for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET

Santa Barbara, California -- Eiffel Software today announced the production release of Eiffel ENViSioN! 1.1, the latest version of its Eiffel-language plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET.

Eiffel ENViSioN! 1.1 is an integral component of The Eiffel Development Framework, a well-known and 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 achieve with other popular languages. With todays release of Eiffel ENViSioN! 1.1, the product becomes an even more convenient tool for developers looking to create the most robust, extendible applications with 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."

Since its initial release in September 2002, Eiffel ENViSioN! has already attracted several thousand users. Weve been gratified to see the response to this product." Ambarian said. We take it as confirmation of both the openness of Visual Studio .NET, and of the developers who use it."

The new 1.1 release of Eiffel ENViSioN! offers the important Melting Ice" incremental compiling scheme that Eiffel Software invented, along with several minor bug-fixes. Features now include:

·   Fully compatible and integrated with the Microsofts Visual Studio .NET development environment
·   An incremental compiler for dramatically better compilation speed (you only compile the portion(s) of your system that you have changed since the last compile, which means far less waiting)
·   Class and feature browsing
·   EiffelBuild -- Eiffel Softwares multi-platform GUI builder
·   Auto-Documentation
·   Designed for compatibility with Visual Studio .NET 2003
·   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. A Free Edition of the product is available at www.eiffel.com/downloads/. 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.
For more information about Eiffel Studio, contact Eiffel Software at 356 Storke Road; Goleta, California 93117; (805) 685-1006; sales@eiffel.com; or visit www.eiffel.com.