The expressway to Visual Basic application development!

VBeXpress Suite combines the power of VBeXpress 2000 and VBeXpress Lite in one great kit for one great price. VBeXpress 2000 will help you create a fully functional n-tier application (with standard Windows screens or web enabled ASP screens) based on Microsoft's COM technology in seconds. VBeXpress 2000 also includes a revolutionary framework for building web applications that will scale. VBeXpress Lite provides 16 timesaving, easy-to-use utilities, as well as an extensive library of pre-tested code to slash development time and cut application development and maintenance costs.

VBeXpress Lite

VBeXpress Lite is a development add-in for Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 that slashes development time and cuts application development and maintenance costs by providing 20 time saving utilities and a vast library of pre-tested code.

The VBeXpress Lite Add-In is fully integrated with the Visual Basic IDE. By using the VBeXpress Lite utilities and the sample code provided, you can dramatically improve your productivity, while increasing the overall quality of the code you produce.

VBeXpress Lite was developed by Visual Basic developers for Visual Basic developers. It provides 20 time saving, easy-to-use utilities, as well as an extensive library of pre-tested code. It helps developers to focus on developing applications by automating tedious and repetitive application tasks such as documenting code, providing application error handling and setting up the user interface. It helps create consistent development coding standards that can be shared across project groups and IT departments.

VBeXpress Lite extends the functionality of the Visual Basic IDE in many ways which will help you to create user-friendly applications faster and more efficiently than ever before. Much of the development code that went into creating VBeXpress Lite was generated by VBeXpress Lite itself.

Key Features

Error Handling
Insert sophisticated centralized error handling into all of your code procedures with just a couple of mouse clicks. Run-time errors and application crashes become a thing of the past.

Coding Utilities
Extend the library of pre-tested procedures and functions that can be inserted into your application at the touch of a button. Adding user-defined properties to forms and classes is quicker and easier than ever before.

Advanced Cut and Paste
Save time by utilizing the advanced cut and paste features provided by VBeXpress Lite. Cut, copy and paste controls and associated event procedures in seconds.

Form Validator and Tab Assistant
Generate standard input validation code for your application's data using the VBeXpress Lite Form Validator. Extend its capabilities to your specific needs by modifying existing code templates and adding your own. Generate code to control the tab order of your controls which is especially useful for forms that contain multiple hidden frames.

Spell Checker
Check and correct the spelling of all controls and strings in minutes.

Advanced Search and Column Copy
Use the VBeXpress Lite Advanced Search utility to search for multiple occurances of code strings. Copy code columns to speed up code sections involving variable mappings.

Comment Utilities
Insert standard procedure and module headers with minimal effort and time. Create and call up a well-organized library of comments that can be pasted directly into the Visual Basic code window.

Standardize Development & Track Coding Tasks
Share the VBeXpress Lite database across a project group to create code that is consistent throughout a project group or company. Prioritize and assign coding tasks to individual team members.

Online News & Tips and Support
VBeXpress Lite includes XML help tips and news feeds that are read directly from the VBeXpress web site. The product also comes with 2 months technical support, free of charge.

Generate code based on Customizable Templates
Customize the existing code templates to match your specific needs. Take full control of the Visual Basic environment and harness the power of VBeXpress Lite the way you want.

VBeXpress 2000

VBeXpress 2000 is the new development tool for Microsoft Visual Basic that slashes development time and cuts application development and maintenance costs. VBeXpress 2000 will help you create a fully functional n-tier application (with standard screens or ASP screens) based on Microsoft’s COM technology in seconds. In three easy steps VBeXpress 2000 will save you hours of development time by generating all your database access classes for you. It even generates a fully functional UI (with VB forms or Web screens) for you so that you can add, update or delete any record in your database using embedded SQL or stored procedures. The database classes generated will provide you with high-performance objects that can be used in production environments without any apprehension. If the code that is generated does not meet your standards, simply amend the code generation templates to suit your particular requirements.

Three Easy Steps to Enterprise and Web Development

• Connect to the database using VBeXpress easy connect.
• Create a project and select the database tables, fields and relationships that you wish to include.
• Select pre-defined templates (or define your own), hit the ‘Generate’ button, sit back and watch as a fully working application is built for you in seconds.

VBeXpress also ships a tutorial and a development white paper -- "a guide to building three tier enterprise and web applications". These documents are in PDF format for ease of printing and will help you convert the generated code into a working production-ready, user-ready application.

Main Features

• Full support for Oracle, Microsoft SQL-Server, MS-Access, Sybase, DB/2 or any database that you have an ODBC driver for or an ADO Provider for.
• Generate code to access the database using ADO, RDO, DAO or Oracle Objects for OLE.
• Generate standard screens and forms to access your database classes.
• Generate Active Server Pages with HTML, VB Script and Java Script to access your database classes over the web.
• Support and generation of Oracle, SQL-Server and Sybase stored procedures, and MS-Access querydefs.
• Support and generation of MTS (COM+) classes.
• Support and generation of XML and XSL style sheets.
• Standard templates that generate high-performance stateless data object classes that can be used to build your enterprise wide and web applications.
• A template editor that is easy to use and provides auto syntax generation and checking.
• A detailed tutorial on using VBeXpress 2000 (in PDF format).
• A development white paper which details building enterprise and web applications (PDF format).
• Generation of web applications with a choice of three distinct architectures including an 'ISP friendly' architecture that does not require any server-side Active-X (i.e. 100% VBScript).
• Application Framework for Web Applications

The Template Editor

Editing code generation templates is made easy with the VBeXpress 2000 template editor. The features include:

• Auto syntax generation
• Auto syntax checking
• Editor format similar to notepad

There are over 120 pre-defined templates that generate ADO, RDO, DAO and even Oracle Objects for OLE code to work with Oracle, SQL-Server and MS-Access databases. There are even templates to generate stored procedures and querydefs so that the generated application will run even faster.

VBeXpress is "electronically delivered" only.