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Entisoft Tools 2.0 Fact Sheet

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Executive Summary

What is it? Entisoft Tools is a collection of over 1,500 string manipulation, text processing, financial, mathematical, date and time calculation, statistical, data structure, program development, and other functions for use in your Visual Basic and VBA programming projects.
Getting Started: Simply establish a Reference to Entisoft Tools within your Visual Basic or Microsoft Office VBA project then most of the functions are available globally just as if they were built into Visual Basic.
Getting Help: Entisoft Tools includes an extensively cross-referenced Hypertext Help file that describes how to use each function. You can highlight the name of an Entisoft Tools function within the Visual Basic editor and press {F1} to jump directly to the function's help topic.
Standard Edition: The Standard Edition, which sells for $179.00 per developer, includes the Entisoft Tools ActiveX DLL that you can distribute royalty-free with your projects.
Professional Edition: The Professional Edition, which sells for $399.00 per developer, includes the complete Visual Basic source code to Entisoft Tools.
Source Linker: The Linker analyzes your Visual Basic project and extracts the source code for the Entisoft Tools functions you have used, so that you can embed them directly within your project and eliminate the need to distribute our ActiveX DLL.
Trial Edition: The free Trial Edition, available for download from our Web site, lets you try the Standard Edition of Entisoft Tools for thirty days without having to purchase it.
More Information: Visit our Web site at http://www.entisoft.com or call 1-310-472-3736 or E-mail Info@Entisoft.com for more information.
Orders: Visit our secure Web site at http://www.entisoft.com/orders.htm or call 1-310-472-3736 to order Entisoft Tools. Site licenses, academic discounts, and upgrade pricing are available.
Technical Support: With your purchase, you will receive the codes to register your Trial Edition of Entisoft Tools immediately, and you will receive the software on CD-ROM and the printed manual via Priority Mail. Overnight and two-day shipping is available.
Technical Support: Call 1-310-472-3736 or send E-mail to Support@Entisoft.com for technical support.

General Information

Works With: Entisoft Tools can be used with the following products:
- Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, Visual Basic 5.0, and Visual Basic 4.0 32-bit
- Microsoft Access 2000, Access 97, and Access 95
- Microsoft Excel 2000, Excel 97, and Excel 95
- Microsoft Word 2000
- Microsoft Outlook 2000 and Outlook 98
- Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS)
- Microsoft Visual FoxPro
- Other programs that support Visual Basic for Applications
- Other programs that allow the use of ActiveX DLLs
Using Outside of VBA: Entisoft Tools includes "wrapper" functions which allow many of the library functions to be called from contexts other than Visual Basic. For example, functions can be called from within Access Query expressions and Excel Worksheet formulas.
Documentation: The functions have been documented to fully support Visual Basic and Microsoft Office VBA's context sensitive help, allowing you to see the what functions are available and each function's parameters as you write your programs, without having to continually refer to the help file or printed documentation.
Installation Program: Entisoft Tools is distributed in self-extracting EXEcutable files and include an InstallShield installation program.

Trial Edition

The Trial Edition lets you try Entisoft Tools for 30 days without first having to buy it!
The Trial Edition is similar in all ways to the Standard Edition, except that it displays a couple of "nag" screens when the program first starts, and it will stop working after 30 days.
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Standard Edition

The Standard Edition is for developers who do not need the source code to Entisoft Tools.
The Standard Edition allows you to distribute the Entisoft Tools ActiveX DLL royalty-free with any of your programs that depend upon it.
The Standard Edition costs $179.00 per developer. Site licenses and academic discounts are available.

Professional Edition

The Professional Edition includes the complete Visual Basic source code for Entisoft Tools.
The Professional Edition includes our Source Linker that will extract the source code for the Entisoft Tools functions you have used and embed it directly within your project.
You can include the source code for Entisoft Tools functions directly within your projects as long as you distribute your projects in compiled form, and as long as you do not disclose our source code to anyone unless they have a Professional Edition license issued by Entisoft.
The Professional Edition costs $399.00 per developer. Site licenses and academic discounts are available.

Developer Considerations

The functions, their arguments, and basic help information can be displayed through the Object Browser, which is built-into most Microsoft applications that support Visual Basic.
The Entisoft Tools ActiveX DLL runs as an In-process OLE Server, meaning that the functions perform with the same speed as if they were resident within the host program itself.
Many of the functions whose primary purpose is to return a value will accept Variant arguments that are fixed-up to the appropriate type. They also support Null values so that they can be used within Access Query expressions and other contexts that support Nulls.
Many of the functions employ error detection and correction so that you are not required to safeguard your use of them with error trapping. Other functions can generate and return errors to your program when they are called with inconsistent or invalid arguments.

As soon as you establish a Reference to Entisoft Tools within your project, most of the Entisoft Tools functions are available globally just as if they were built into Visual Basic itself. Here is a summary of the types of functions provided by Entisoft Tools:

Strings: String search, replacement, manipulation, conversion, translation, etc., functions.
Text: Text processing functions that generally operate upon strings containing words.
Financial: annuity (savings and loan), investment, profit, interest rate, depreciation, and coupon date calculation function.
Mathematics: Mathematical functions, including ones from algebra, geometry, trigonometry, probability, statistics, engineering, science, and other fields.
Arrays: Functions that primarily operate upon arrays of values.
Basics: Enhancements to the built-in Visual Basic functions and statements, file-related functions, file name functions, etc.
Data Structures: The Deque (and Queue and Stack), Stack, List, Hash Table, Symbol Table, and other data structures. These data-bearing classes must be DIMensioned before their functions can be accessed.
Others: Functions that operate mostly upon strings of characters, including bitwise manipulation and conversion functions.
Variants: Functions which apply to a different types of values, including comparison, conversion, fix-up, classification, of values, etc.
Units: Sophisticated measurement conversion function library also available separately as part of Entisoft Units.
Programs: Functions that operate upon one or more files for some high-level purpose such as you might find in a stand-alone program.
Visual Basic Utilities: Functions for Visual Basic and VBA software developers.
Windows API: Functions that wrap around various Windows API functions, making them easier to access.

Pricing

$179.00 for a single-developer Registered Edition license.
$399.00.for the Professional Edition which includes the complete source code to Entisoft Tools. There are some restrictions on the use of this source code--see the Professional Edition section for details.
Contact Entisoft by browsing http://www.Entisoft.com or calling 1-310-472-3736 for more information, to place orders, and to receive technical support.

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