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Eiffel Software Announces Release of EiffelEnvision 2.5

The latest version of the Eiffel plug-in for Visual Studio .NET includes a variety of enhancements and additions

Santa Barbara, CA - May 28, 2005 - Eiffel Software announced today the release of EiffelEnvision 2.5, a feature-laden version of its Eiffel-language plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET.

EiffelEnvision, a plug-in for Visual Studio .NET, allows programmers to develop Eiffel projects using the .NET Framework, with all of the features they have come to expect from both Eiffel and Visual Studio .NET.

"Eiffel Software's development tools target the Microsoft .NET Framework, leveraging components developed by a wide range of vendors who see the power and flexibility of the .NET Framework," says Paul Bates, Manager of the .NET division for Eiffel Software. "Bringing the two together, developers can go so much further. Relying on Design by Contract combined with Multiple Inheritance, and Genericity, programmers can build scalable, safe, reliable and robust .NET Framework-based applications and libraries."

EiffelEnvision 2.5 is a major component of The Eiffel Development Framework, a system for cost-effectively creating fast, robust, scalable applications, and reusable components. By basing their designs on proven Eiffel business objects, developers using the Eiffel Development Framework have been demonstrating productivity increases of 2 to 10 times over what they can achieve with other toolsets. With today's release of EiffelEnvision 2.5, the product offers the most powerful Eiffel experience ever for VS.NET developers.

In EiffelEnvision 2.5 developers will enjoy:

* A new way to manage all their project files and Eiffel cluster libraries, directly from Visual Studio .NET's Solution Explorer in real-time, mirroring all external disk activity. They will know exactly what is going on and what they can expect to see compiled into their EiffelEnvision projects.

* Improvements and optimizations in all aspects related to project building: a better, more suited .NET type/method name mapping to Eiffel classes/features, faster and tunable incremental compilation speeds, and building on an as-needed basis, vastly improving compilations for solutions containing many EiffelEnvision projects.

* A feature complete Eiffel editor with automatic source outlining, feature indexes, clearer differentiation between keywords, classes, features, and symbols, and a fully customizable color scheme.

* Other improvements include: Simplified integration in Source Code Control, enhancements to deployment projects, a new tool to convert EiffelStudio projects, integrated HTML report generation, and a look and feel more consistent with other Visual Studio .NET languages, such as Visual C# and Visual Basic .NET.

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Eiffel Software 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 Software's products enable its 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, technology manufacturers, government and defense contractors, to health care providers and many more.

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