Eiffel Software Announces Release of EiffelEnvision 2.0

Eiffel-Language Plug-In for VS.NET now has full Graphical .NET Support

Santa Barbara, California - (December 9, 2003) - Eiffel Software today announced the production release of EiffelEnvision 2.0, a feature-laden version of its Eiffel-language plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET.

EiffelEnvision 2.0 is a major component of The Eiffel Development Framework, a system for 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 popular languages. With today's release of EiffelEnvision 2.0, the product offers the most powerful Eiffel experience ever for VS.NET developers.

"With the release of EiffelEnvision 2.0, users will find a greatly enhanced experience within the Visual Studio .Net Development Environment." said Lawrence Miller, Customers Relations Director for Eiffel Software. "The addition of support for Windows Winforms Designers now allows developers to create powerful GUI applications while taking advantage of Eiffel's uniquely powerful features."

The new 2.0 release of EiffelEnvision fully powered with Design by Contract TM offers support for Windows, Winforms GUI builder. Developers can easily pick and drop their favorite GUI components in their application. Other features include:

Fully compatible and integrated with the Microsoft's Visual Studio
.NET 2003 & 2002 development environments
Windows Forms Designer: allows developers to take advantage of the
Visual Studio .NET Windows Forms designer to build graphical interfaces quickly using Eiffel and Windows Forms
Project references management: Project references are handled in a
more intuitive and simple way. References can be added and removed directly from the Visual Studio .NET Solution Explorer
Source code control Management: fully implements Visual Studio .NET
Source control management's APIs making it easier to store and retrieve sources from a source code control management system such as Microsoft's Visual Source Safe
Improved .NET integration: EiffelEnvision 2.0 allows calling overloaded .NET methods without using mangled names
.NET resources support: EiffelEnvision 2.0 now supports the inclusion of .NET resources within Eiffel assemblies
Better Automation Support: EiffelEnvision 2.0 fully implements DTE so that Eiffel projects can now be managed via Visual Studio .NET Automation (VSA)
Compiler warnings: EiffelEnvision 2.0 can list compiler warnings in the tasks list after a compilation

According to Eiffel users, the Eiffel language is among the easiest programming language to learn and use. Extensive support for users new to the language is available from the company website, together with links to the various Eiffel user groups worldwide.

Availability:

The new release of EiffelEnvision has already begun shipping to Eiffel Software's existing customers, and is available immediately via the company's 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. For more information, contact us or call (805) 685-1006.

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 power by Design by Contract™ for business-critical and enterprise software developments. Eiffel Software's 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, technology manufacturing, government and defense contractors, to health care providers and more.

Product or service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners.