IDE, the development environment for Microsoft Corp’s 32-bit Visual C++, was developed by Paris-based Nat Systemes SA, which had developed the environment originally for Visual C++ 1.0, Nat Systemes has revealed. Thierry Huget, Microsoft France’s director of development tools and languages, confirms the company’s participation in the product development, adding however that they were not implicated at all in the compiler’s development. Says Huget, They just moved the environment over to NT. The conversion effort, says Nat Systemes, consisted of writing 80,000 lines of code, interfacing IDE with the 32-bit compiler and the debugger, and of developing new functions (management of structured exceptions, multitasking management in the debugger).