News
ActiveState Brings Perl to Visual Studio.NET
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/14/2000
ActiveState Tool Corp.
has bridged one of the gaps between Linux and Windows 2000 with the beta
release of Visual Perl, a plug-in for
Microsoft’s
Visual Studio.NET that offers a full-featured, integrated development
environment for Perl.
Visual Perl’s GUI-based environment contains all the
standard features of a modern IDE, such as a rich syntax-aware editor, method
tips, online help, and debugger support. Visual Perl also features a
syntax-based colorized editor for instant feedback as code is written; code
completion assistance such as method tips and call tips that save the programmer
from extra use of documentation; online documentation; the ability to run
programs in a debugger or in the shell; automatic highlights of syntax errors
as they are introduced; and linking of error messages in a task list to the
error source.
Perl is a widely used programming language, largely used in
Web development, and usually developed in a Linux or Unix environment.
Visual Studio.NET provides enabling technologies to simplify
the creation, deployment, and ongoing evolution of secure, scalable Web applications
and Web services. These include shared editors for use in all Visual Studio
languages, Web and Windows forms, and XML-based Web services. – Isaac Slepner
About the Author
Scott Bekker is editor in chief of Redmond Channel Partner magazine.