Microsoft Corp yesterday duly launched at its Developer Days ’98 conference, its Visual Studio 6.0 development tool, revamped, the company claimed, for building web-based applications as well as a new version of the Microsoft Office 2000 Developer tool suite. The Visual tool set includes the Visual Modeler for piecing together multi-tier applications and generating component definitions from UML-based models, as well as database programming tools such as ActiveX DataObject 2.0. ActiveX Data Object 2.0 can be us for accessing ODBC and OLE DB compliant databases. Among the companies to trumpet their support for Visual Studio 6.0 were ChiliSoft Inc with its Chili!ASP, Object Design with its PSE Pro database and Platinum Technology Inc with its application life cycle and data management tools.
