User Experience

Visual APL introduces integration with Visual Studio 2005.  This breakthrough APL user experience is designed to assure that you are a first class team player in both the Visual Studio environment and the various code management packages, including Team Foundation Server from MS.  Everything you expect from APL, integrated with Visual Studio.

By integrating Visual APL into Visual Studio 2005 you can easily take advantage of all of the tools Microsoft has incorporated into it’s flagship development platform.   Whether it is debugging, managing code, or using one of the many designer integrated with Visual Studio, Visual APL brings APL to the forefront of .Net languages and assures that your application is 100% .Net safe code.

Ease of use

When you start using Visual APL, you will recognize familiar elements such as the session, immediate execution, and all of the APL operators and features you have come to expect, including execute.  All of this is now faster, more streamlined, and more helpful than in previous versions of APL. Intellisense is integrated into both the session and the code development  editors.   Search has been dramatically enhanced, check out our ScreenCast on  seaching code!

Session, Explorer and immediate execution

The new Visual APL Explorer is powerful yet easy-to-use and completely integrated into Visual Studio 2005.   You can run a line of code, edit a single function, a class, or create a script.   Simply close the editor and the script runs, the function is defined, or the class is created.  It’s just that simple in the Explorer Session.  Intellisense makes using .Net classes simple and easy.  You can easily add references to assemblies using the refbyname and refbyfile keywords.   Creating an assembly from a source file and using it in the session is as simple as selecting the drop down menu to load a Visual APL source file.  Visual APL scripts can be run in the session in the same way, from a drop down menu.  Simple and intuitive define the Visual APL session integrated into Visual Studio 2005.

Visual APL Code Development in Visual Studio 2005

Visual APL is completely integrated into Visual Studio 2005.  Your APL code takes advantage of all of the features of Microsoft’s premier development platform.  Intellisense, designers, debugging, variable analysis, stops, stack analysis, everything you could expect in a developer tool is available in Visual Studio and Visual APL makes them all available to you.