Elsinore Technologies to Integrate Microsoft Visual Basic For Applications For its Visual Intercept Bug-Tracking System

Business Wire, Dec 16, 1998

RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 16, 1998--

VBA Enhances Customization of the Premiere Bug-Tracking System for the

Microsoft Development Environment

Elsinore Technologies, Inc. announces today that it will integrate Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) into future Visual Intercept products. Visual Intercept is the only software bug tracking system that is project-oriented, scaleable, and optimized for Microsoft visual tool users. The application allows users to create deep hierarchies of projects and subprojects for categorizing their bugs. Integrating VBA will help users customize Visual Intercept to fit p recisely with their specific bug tracking and reporting needs.

"Given Elsinore's strong grasp of Microsoft's core technologies, Visual Intercept's integration of VBA is a natural synergy," said Neil Charney, lead product manager for VBA at Microsoft Corp. "With VBA in Visual Intercept, Elsinore's customers will benefit from a rich and fully customizable development environment."

"Through this relationship, developers will have much more control over the look and feel of the Visual Intercept system," explains Mark Uland, Chief Software Architect at Elsinore. "Users will have more interface control, and will be able to build custom rules and forms, as well as triggered events. Because VBA is the premier technology for building integrated Office and BackOffice applications, Visual Intercept is taking its place as a part of the complete Microsoft solution for developers."

"This agreement is yet another sign that Visual Intercept is the default choice for bug-tracking within the Microsoft environment," states August Turak, president of Elsinore Technologies. "Elsinore has, and will continue to prove its commitment to the Microsoft development environment".

Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications

VBA is the development environment and language of Microsoft Office applications, as well as in third parties that license the VBA technology. Based on Microsoft Visual Basic, VBA provides developers with high levels of productivity, performance and interoperability with other COM-based components. The VBA development environment, embedded directly into the host application, is immediately accessible to the more than three million developers using Visual Basic today. For more information on VBA, visit th e Microsoft Web site at http://www.microsoft.com/vba/.> The first integration of VBA into Visual Intercept Enterprise is expected some time in the first quarter of 1999.

About Elsinore

Visual Intercept is the only project-oriented, enterprise-ready bug tracking system specifically designed from the ground up for Microsoft visual tool users. Completely scalable, Visual Intercept allows users to create deep hierarchies of projects and subprojects for categorizing their bugs or incidents.

Directly integrating with Visual Studio, Visual SourceSafe, Visual Test and more, Visual Intercept gives everyone involved in the development process quick access to the information that matters to them.

The Visual Intercept product line includes Visual Intercept (Standard and Enterprise editions), Visual Intercept Software Developers Kit, Visual Intercept Web, and Visual Intercept Relay. For more information, visit the Elsinore Technologies web site at http://www.elsitech.com. A time-limited trial download is also available.