BENEFITS

• Enjoy a new level of productivity with new features that significantly reduce development time. Developers will spend less time building applications, less time coding, less time compiling, and less time debugging, while enjoying greater component reuse.
  
  
• Get blazing speed. Visual C++, already the standard for speed, now generates faster code than ever before. Visual C++ 6.0 is tuned in a number of places so that developers can build the fastest, smallest components and applications possible.
  
  
• Develop for Windows and the Web. Now you can easily build the smallest ActiveX controls, take advantage of the latest user interface enhancements from Microsoft in your applications, and create multimedia-based highly interactive, Dynamic HTML pages.
  
  
• Simplify programming with COM+, and build distributed applications with built-in load balancing, transaction support, message queuing, object pooling, security, and integrated component management services.
  
  
• Build highly reliable, self-repairing applications using the new Visual Studio Installer.
  
  
• Develop a breadth of solutions from full data warehouses using Microsoft SQL Server 7.0, to freely redistributable mobile database applications using the new SQL Server-compatible Microsoft Data Engine (MSDE) for Visual Studio.
  

Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 Professional Edition
What's New
Windows 2000 Developer's Readiness Kit		Learn how to take advantage of new Windows 2000 features through in-depth, step-by-step training and technical resources. Get an overview of the Windows 2000 Web Services to build scalable Internet applications. Harness the power of the new COM+ services, including integrated component management features, transaction processing between objects, and support for dynamic load balancing across servers. Use the Visual Studio Installer to create setup programs that feature easy installation and self-repair.
Visual Studio Installer		Build highly reliable, self-repairing applications using the new Visual Studio Installer.
Microsoft Data Engine for Visual Studio		Develop a breadth of solutions from full data warehouses using Microsoft SQL Server 7.0, to freely redistributable mobile database applications using the new SQL Server-compatible Microsoft Data Engine (MSDE) for Visual Studio.
One-year MSDN Library Subscription		Get the essential programming information you need for Windows 2000 and beyond - delivered to your door step - with a year's worth of MSDN Library updates.
Standard Features
IntelliSense Technology		Increase productivity and greatly simplify coding with auto list members, parameter info, type info, code comments, and complete word that eliminates the need to memorize complex syntax, parameters, and component properties.
Edit & Continue		Get faster turnaround with new Edit and Continue in the debugger. Developers can edit code while debugging without having to quit the debugging session, rebuild, restart the debugger, and return the application to the state where the problem occurred.
Dynamic ClassView updating		Easily navigate your code and save time as changes like adding a variable or method are reflected immediately in ClassView.
Active Document Containment		Easily and seamlessly integrate the functionality of Active Documents from Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and other applications.
Composite Controls		Get state-of-the-art ActiveX development with new Composite Controls-easily reuse any ActiveX control within your own.
Faster compiler throughput		Compiler throughput on debug projects is as much as 30 percent faster, and on non-debug projects as much as 15 percent faster (without sacrificing any optimizations).
Faster MFC applications		MFC runs faster with better granularity and less code overhead in dynamic link scenarios.
Optimizing compiler keywords		Aggressively optimize with new compiler performance keywords.
Delay Load Imports		Speed applications by deferring DLL loading until necessary for continuing execution.
OLE DB consumer and provider templates		Greatly simplify high-performance access to any data source-relational and nonrelational, e-mail and file systems, text and graphic, custom business objects, and so on-with new templates for building OLE DB consumers and providers.
Internet Explorer 4.0 Common Controls		Easily use the new Common Controls to give your user interfaces the compelling look of the new Internet Explorer 4.0.
Web integration in MFC		Just choose CHtmlView in the AppWizard to build custom Web browsers into MFC front ends, with full support for dynamic HTML.
Dynamic HTML support		Build multimedia-rich, highly interactive dynamic HTML Web pages that fully exploit Internet Explorer 4.0 and capitalize on your existing skills and code.
Multiple monitor support		Divide and conquer with the multiple monitor support. Run an application on one screen and debug on another (Requires Windows 98 or Windows NT 5.0).
Improved Features
Optimizing compiler		Take advantage of industry-leading performance and the number-one optimizing compiler for the smallest, fastest executables.
Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC)		Build world-class applications with the most robust, productive, and widely used application framework available for Windows.
Active Template Library (ATL)		Quickly create the smallest, most scalable server-side components and ActiveX controls with the Active Template Library (ATL).
Wizards		Save time with numerous new and enhanced wizards throughout the product for MFC, ATL, and more.
ANSI C++ support		Support for the latest ANSI/ISO specification, including array new and delete.

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