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Fall Comdex and Internet World featured numerous new products for the interactive developer. Here are a few of the more interesting items we found for you to jazz up your applications.
Visual Active Channel Authoring
AnyWare Ltd. recently released Channel Maker 1.0, designed to give Internet content providers, intranet administrators, and Web designers a visual method for authoring Active Channel™ content. The Active Channel can be built-up from subchannels and items, with full support for Active Desktop™ items. All properties and features of the CDF tags can be
set without text editing. All links can be checked automatically before the Channel file is saved, minimizing the risk of broken links. A facility is also provided for authoring Channels if a permanent connection to the Web server is not available. This allows pages to be checked with local copies residing on the user's hard disk. Integration with the Windows® shell allows Channel files to be updated without opening Channel Maker, and command-line options provide for unattended Channel updates.
AnyWare Ltd.
Box 116, 14 Clifton Down Road
Clifton Village, Bristol, BS8 4BF,
United Kingdom
info@anywhere.co.uk
Fax: +44-(0) 117-973-6888
http://www.anyware.co.uk
Transform
Visual FoxPro to Dynamic HTML
West Wind Technologies is shipping the Enterprise Edition of West Wind Web Connection Version 2.55. The Enterprise Edition provides extended features to the Web Connection framework, focusing on intranet and large-scale Web development. Web Connection 2.55 introduces Dynamic HTML rendering of Visual FoxPro®-based forms in Microsoft® Internet Explorer 4.0. Forms can be rendered as-is, on-the-fly with support for most of the Visual FoxPro native controls. This edition also provides extended COM and DCOM functionality for Web Connection Automation servers. The Enterprise Edition also includes Web Monitor, a tool that notifies you by email or pager of any problems with your application, and can even restart the application automatically through an HTTP link. The product also includes a full online Message Board application, including an offline viewer that demonstrates using Visual FoxPro as a client and server in a distributed application that runs over HTTP.
West Wind Technologies
400 Morton Road
Hood River, OR 97031
541-386-2087
http://www.west-wind.com
Simplify
Access to DirectX
PolyMedia SDK, recently released by Levitech, is a set of ActiveX™ controls that significantly simplify access to Microsoft's DirectX®. PolyMedia adds a new perspective to multimedia application development by allowing fast graphical operations together with the runtime mixing of any
kind of multimedia object. The PolyMedia SDK controls are linked to a central kernel that manages the whole system. Each control depends on this kernel, but they can also be used independently from the others. The ActiveX controls in the SDK include multiple video file controls, bitmap loading, integration of sprite animation, simultaneous playback of multiple sounds, display or mix of graphical elements, text integration, and
FLC animation. PolyMedia is intended for use by multimedia developers, especially those developing high quality dynamic multimedia games, edutainment and presentations. PolyMedia
SDK ships in two different versions: the Standard SDK, with the full set of ActiveX controls, and the Enhanced SDK, which includes an option to develop your own ActiveX controls and link them with those in the SDK.
Levitech Software Systems
Industrial Area
PO Box 1012
Efrat, Israel 90435
972-2-993-3366
Fax: 972-2-993-3368
http://www.levitech.com
Build ISAPI Apps for
Windows NT Server and Internet
Information Server
Pacific Software Publishing is now shipping VB Bridge 2.0 and VB SendFORM, designed to work separately to create standalone server-side applications, or to be combined to create ISAPI-based online mailing programs. VB Bridge 2.0 allows developers
using Visual Basic to build Windows NT® and IIS-based applications that use ISAPI's efficient processing support. This version is designed to run twice as fast as its predecessor, and includes new functions for file uploads and downloads between IIS and browsers. VB SendFORM can be used to create mail modules within Web sites, or standalone mail applications for Windows® 95 and Windows NT® 4.0. VB SendFORM applications include online order form encapsulation for the filing of customer email addresses for newsletter broadcasts.
Pacific Software Publishing Inc.
600 108th Ave. NE, Suite 104
Bellevue, WA 98004
425-688-8080
http://www.vbbridge.com
Real-Time
"On the Wire" Data Mining
Marketwave Corporation is now shipping Hit List Live 3.5, a Web mining solution that offers real-time Web traffic data collection, processing, and reporting capabilities combined with traditional log file analysis functionality.
Designed for companies operating high-traffic Web sites with complex, multilocation and multiplatform configurations, Hit List Live 3.5 enables Webmasters to automate the capture, storage, analysis and reporting of Web traffic data. The product supports multiple, worldwide Live Data Collectors that simultaneously store to local databases, as well as to a centralized data warehouse via WAN or through the Internet. Remote users of Hit List Live can generate up-to-date reports on-the-fly using any Web browser, enabling users anywhere in the world to securely access and report on Web traffic. Included in Hit List Live is The Advertising Manager, which lets Web marketers compare the return on investment of ad banners running on multiple external sites.
Marketwave Corporation
1415 Western Avenue, Suite 488
Seattle, WA 98101
206-682-6801
http://www.marketwave.com/hl
Monitoring
Windows NT and BackOffice
Environments
NetIQ is now shipping the NetIQ AppManager Suite Version 2.0, which is composed of integrated app manager components that are specifically designed to monitor Windows NT-based systems and applications. NetIQ AppManager Suite 2.0 includes support for central management and monitoring of Microsoft® Windows NT, Microsoft BackOffice®, and Lotus Domino environments.
It features a Web-based user interface, prepackaged trend analysis reports, and push technology that lets MIS personnel centrally distribute the AppManager agent to remote systems. Using the AppManager console, administrators can configure monitoring functions to collect performance data and monitor for simple or complex events. Corrective actions, such as sending email or running a "fix" program, can be set up to automatically execute when a specific event occurs. AppManagers are now shipping for Windows NT 3.51 and Windows NT Server and Workstation 4.0, Microsoft SQL Server® 6.0 and 6.5, Microsoft Proxy Server, Microsoft Cluster Server, Microsoft Message Queue Server, Microsoft Transaction Server, Lotus Notes Server, Lotus Domino, Compaq Insight Manager 3.1 and greater, and others.
NetIQ
275 Saratoga Avenue, Suite 260
Santa Clara, CA 95050
408-556-0888
http://www.netiq.com
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