Digital Visual Fortran Programmer’s Guide

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The definitive guide to Digital Visual Fortran. Written by key technical writers from the Digital Visual Fortran product team, Digital Visual Fortran Programmer’s Guide presents in printed form the critical portions of the official programmer's guide, otherwise only available online, and adds important new material. The book details the complete process of developing Digital Visual Fortran Version 6 applications, from choosing a project type through building and debugging. It specifically discusses the capabilities and coding guidelines for each Visual Fortran project type. Readers will understand performance and optimization options, using COM objects, using dialogs and graphics elements, mixed-language programming, developing multi-threaded applications, locating run-time errors, and portability considerations. The result is the authoritative book on Digital Visual Fortran's features and tools and how to use them to create effective applications. Only printed version of the official programmer's guide to Digital Visual Fortran Authors are experts from the Digital Visual Fortran product group Introduces the Microsoft® visual development environment (Developer Studio) and its integrated set of tools. Michael Etzel and Karen Dickinson are Principal Technical Writers in the Digital Visual Fortran Group, Compaq Computer Corporation.