Dr. Dobb's Journal February, 2005
Macrovision has updated its installation software to InstallShield 10.5. New features include a network repository to share common elements, Assemblies that reuse components across different products, and the ability to edit any XML file. The new Trialware feature lets you easily build evaluation versions of software. InstallShield 10.5 also supports the latest version of Microsoft Software Installer, MSI 3.0.
Macrovision Corp.
2830 De La Cruz Boulevard
Santa Clara, CA 95050
408-743-8600
http://www.macrovision.com/
Absoft has announced Cluster Builder's Kit 2.0 to replace its Beowulf Tool Kit 1.0. Absoft is also selling and supporting a new High Performance Computing Software Developers' Kit for IBM Linux on POWER clusters and servers, and is preparing to release its IBM XL Fortran Advanced Edition compiler Version 8.1 for Mac OS bundled with Visual Numerics' IMSL Fortran Numerical Library 5.0.
Absoft Corp.
2781 Bond Street
Rochester Hills, MI 48309
248-853-0050
http://www.absoft.com/
Elegance Technologies has developed C-Sharpener for VB, an add-in to Microsoft Visual Studio that automatically converts Visual Basic .NET code to C#. C-Sharpener for VB is integrated with Visual Studio .NET, and can be launched from within Visual Studio; a wizard guides you through the translation process. Symbol table technology is used to perform the conversion. C-Sharpener for VB does a syntactic and semantic analysis, including a full symbol tree with referenced assemblies.
Elegance Technologies
1721 Green Valley Road
Havertown, PA 19083
484-431-1775
http://www.elegancetech.com/
Tech-X Corporation is offering OptSolve++ Version 2.1, a library providing implementations of algorithms for solving and optimization of nonlinear multidimensional user-defined merit functions. Nonlinear optimization algorithms include Powell, Conjugate Gradient, Nonlinear Simplex, and Levenberg-Marquardt. OptSolve++ libraries are available for Windows, Linux, or Mac OS X, and OptSolve++ Pro provides library and cross-platform source code for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.
Tech-X Corp.
5621 Arapahoe Avenue, Suite A
Boulder, CO 80303
303-448-0727
http://www.txcorp.com/
Zope X3 is the next major Zope release and has been written from scratch based on the latest software-design patterns and the experiences of Zope 2. The "X" in the name stands for "experimental" because this release does not try to provide any backward compatibility to Zope 2. Zope is an open-source web-application server primarily written in Python. It features a transactional object database that can store content, custom data, dynamic HTML templates, scripts, a search engine, relational database (RDBMS) connections, and code.
Zope Corp.
Lafayette Technology Center
513 Prince Edward Street
Fredericksburg, VA 22401
540-361-1700
http://zope.org/
Klocwork has updated its static analysis tools, which extend support for Java across the entire family to include application security testing. inForce for Java, inSight for Java, and inSpect for Java let you understand and analyze large Java architectures with very complex relationships along multiple dimensions. The new versions include system-level analysis and defect detection and prevention capabilities you as a plug-in for Eclipse, a plug-in for the Rational Application Developer for WebSphere, or as a standalone capability.
Klocwork
35 Corporate Drive, 4th Floor
Burlington, MA 01803
866-556-2967
http://www.klocwork.com/
Windward Studios has made available Windward Reports 3.0, its Microsoft Word-based report-layout process. With 3.0, Windward Reports is now available for use in .NET programs. A new AutoTag add-in for Microsoft Word simplifies data layout and data-source mapping, and reduces the size of tags on the template page. Users can also write JavaBeans that perform final processing on the output of a tag; map to SQL, XML or custom data sources; and call Windward Reports directly from Java.
Windward Studios Inc.
PMB 115, 637 B South Broadway
Boulder, CO 80305
303-499-2544
http://www.windwardreports.com/
GridinSoft Notepad 2.7 is designed to keep the simplicity Notepad offers while adding code-editing features you need, such as customizable syntax highlighting, a spell checker that works for 10 different languages simultaneously, console command support, a hex editor, a math expression evaluator, support for the LaTeX format, bookmarks, drag-and-drop support, and 10 other options lacking in the original Notepad.
GridinSoft
Proletarskaya 54/56
39617 Kremenchuk Ukraine
http://www.gridinsoft.com/
Afalina has released Version 2.1 of Add-in Express .NET, a .NET component library for developing MS Office COM add-ins, SmartTags, and Excel RTD Servers. Add-in Express .NET installs technology-specific wizards that generate projects in Visual Basic, C#, Visual C++, J#, and Delphi.
Afalina Co. Ltd.
149 Barykina Street
Gomel, BY Belarus
+375-232-473-466
http://www.add-in-express.com/
AppForge Crossfire 5.5 provides application development for Palm OS, Symbian, and Pocket PC mobile devices using the Microsoft Visual C# development environment. Other features include built-in support for radio frequency identification (RFID), support for Microsoft Windows Mobile-Based Smartphone, Motorola A1000 devices and support for Pocket PC 2003 second edition extended features.
AppForge Inc.
3348 Peachtree Road NE
Tower Place 200, Suite 625
Atlanta, GA 30326
678-686-9000
http://www.appforge.com/
DDJ