http://www.microsoft.com/devwire/ (PC Press Internet CD, 03/1996)
Visit the Microsoft FrontPage Web page to learn about how you can receive a free trial copy of Microsoft FrontPage! See for yourself how FrontPage streamlines the creation and management of your own Web site.
Please be aware that this trial offer is available for a limited time and that product support will not be provided.
Want to Learn Your MFCs? Check out "Mastering Microsoft Visual C++," a new, interactive learning tool that takes developers through the steps required to create professional-level solutions using Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC). It'll be available in mid-March.
Now, how about the DAO of Microsoft Access? Hot on the heels of "Mastering Visual C++" is "Mastering Microsoft Access Programming," which will be available at the end of March. This title helps you gain expertise in Visual Basic for Applications, DAO, and OLE development in the Microsoft Access environment.
In the wake of an internal reorganization in its Developer Division, Microsoft has reaffirmed its commitment to the Microsoft Visual FoxPro database management system. Contrary to a February 16 report in the publication Information Week Online," Microsoft will continue to develop, manufacture, and support Visual FoxPro.
A Macintosh version of Visual FoxPro 3.0, the current generation of the product, is slated to ship this summer, and the Visual FoxPro team continues work on the next version.
In March, Application Developers Training Company (AppDev) and Microsoft Corporation will cosponsor a new one-day seminar for developers around the U.S. and Canada that highlights how to make programming easier with the powerful new features of Visual FoxPro 3.0. If you're a developer, power user, manager, or independent consultant using FoxPro or an Xbase programming language, this seminar is for you.
Call for information or to register in the U.S. or Canada: (800) 295-1883. If you are interested in viewing additional information on AppDev, please go to the AppDev Web page. Outside the U.S. or Canada, please contact your local subsidiary for training opportunities.
The alpha release of the WWW Search Page Wizard and the beta release of the Visual FoxPro ODBC Driver 1.0 are now available. Check out the Visual FoxPro home page.
ActiveVRML is a modeling language for specifying interactive animation. An interactive animation is an event-driven animation where those events are defined by the animation's author. Animation can be created from two- and three-dimensional geometries, two- and three-dimensional points, vectors, and transforms, as well as montages, colors, images, text, and sound.
An example of an interactive animation is a solar system complete with planets that rotate about their axis and orbit the sun. The interactive aspects of this animation could include buttons that let the user move (in three dimensions) around the solar system and sounds that increase in volume as the user "approaches" a given planet or star.
For a complete description of the modeling language as well as sample animation, please visit the ActiveVRML page in the Internet Development Toolbox
A new premium release of the Development Platform has been shipped to Microsoft Developer Network Level 2 members. It contains:
The Microsoft Access for Windows 95 and the Microsoft Access Developer's Toolkit Beta Exam #71-69 is being delivered worldwide through March 7, 1996. A passing grade on this beta exam applies toward elective credit for the Microsoft Solution Developer certification.
The addresses and phone numbers for Visual C++ and Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) subscribers have changed. If you have questions about these programs, please use the following new contact information:
MSDN:
phone: (800) 759-5474
fax: (510) 275-0762
postal mail: PO Box 5549
Pleasanton, CA 94566-1549
Visual C++:
phone: (800) 719-5577
fax: (510)275-0762
postal mail: P.O. Box 5479
Pleasanton, CA 94566-1407
If you need to send something via overnight mail regarding either MSDN or Visual C++, the street address is: 2440 Camino Ramon, Ste. 200, San Ramon, CA 94583.
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