Yes, there are! If you would be interested in participating in one of our Beta test groups, please let us know. We will send you a beta version of Visual Logic 2.1 for you to review the new features of that product, including Batch grading and Text To Speech.

The taskbar has been overhauled (icon grouping), and a new uncluttered notification area. Only the recycle bin is on the desktop - the rest are kept in a new, larger start menu.

No. Students are recommended to distinguish variables by unique and descriptive names, not by varying the case. Yes. Visual Logic follows standard operator precedence, working from the innermost set of paretheses first: Yes. The AND, OR, XOR, and NOT operators can be used to create compound conditions. In Visual Logic (or any programming language) we recommend that compound conditions use parentheses to explicitly denote each condition.

Yes,. To do text file I/O, double-click on the Input (or Output) element to show the edit dialog, click "More >>", and select the File option button, and then specify the appropriate text file name. Second, DO use quotes around string data inside the text file.

Visual Logic can do it all... variables, input, assignment, output, conditions, loops, procedures, arrays, files, graphics, debugging, variable watch... everything an instructor needs to teach programming logic and design.

Generics, anonymous methods, partial classes, iterators, property visibility (separate visibility for get and set) and static classes. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/05/C20/default.aspx for more information about these features.

Generics are useful for writing efficient type-independent code, particularly where the types might include value types. The obvious application is container classes, and the .NET 2.0 class library includes a suite of generic container classes in the System.Collections.Generic namespace. Here's a simple example of a generic container class being used: List<int> myList = new List<int>(); myList.

Windows XP has many new features. Users upgrading from the 9x code will find the larges changes in terms of stability. Other great advances are built-in CD-R/RW support, Remote Assistance, a built-in firewall, and Device Driver Rollback. Find a complete feature list here for Home and here for Pro.

Yes and no. The name of our parent company is Square One, headquartered in the Netherlands. Our product suite used to be called The Graphics Connection. We sold our file conversion software for over 10 years under those names, building a customer list of leading companies in aerospace, defense, semiconductors, life sciences, finance, publishing and of course AEC.

The VLSig file provides a personal electronic signature to authenticate your work. Your VLSig file is created for you when you consume the PIN code that comes with your license. You need your VLSig file to save your work. The authenticated author is saved with each solution file. If you run Visual Logic without a VLSig file, you will be in Demo mode and you cannot save your work. (In other words, only authenticated work can be saved.)

To keep syntax at a minimum, Visual Logic treats all data as Variants, and usage of a variable is determined by its context.

Where do we start? Primarily, the new features allow you the user to be in control. Want to start your own blog? Now you can! Have some hot news to share to the world? Go ahead! Want to tell people about what you're playing? It's all available now!

Click here for instructions and data for Palestine, Austral Islands and Marquesas Islands, and Temotu Island. In order for LOGic to access the callbook, the callbook interface form must not be closed. Opening and Closing the callbook form turns the interface on and off. To open the call book form, go to Forms on the menu bar, then click Callbook. You may minimize the callbook window if you desire. The window will maintain its state when you exit and rerun LOGic.

All the new features are documented in the AspectJ 5 Developer's Notebook and the AspectJ Development Environment Guide. To summarize: Java 5 support: as an extension to Java, AspectJ supports all the new language features of Java 5, including generics (parameterized types), autoboxing, covariant return types, enhanced for-loops, enums, varargs, and of course annotations.

Several new features have been added, including integration with Apple iTunes, which allows users to create audio files from TropeTrainer software and send them directly to their iPods (or other mp3 players.) Users will also be able to create audio CDs to play in their car. Other features include an improved computer voice, and the ability to play piano sounds behind the voice for enhanced usability.

There is a new option to automatically convert VB.Net methods with optional parameters to C# overloaded methods. Improved handling of web references so that a web reference with a non-default name converts correctly.