What's in ConnectMate 2010 Engine

ConnectMate Studio Programming

ConnectMate Studio is a Visual Design Application for Microsoft Visual Studio that provides a complete suite of tools for designing networks and translations. You can use ConnectMate Studio's powerful component-based development tools and other technologies to simplify network design, development, and deployment.

Integrated Development Environment Overview

This topic provides a brief overview of many of the features and tools included in ConnectMate Studio for network design. ConnectMate Studio uses a single integrated development environment (IDE). The IDE is composed of several elements: the Menu toolbar, the Standard toolbar, the Layer toolbar, the Debug toolbar, and various tool windows docked or auto-hidden on the left, bottom, and right sides, as well as the editor space. At start up, the initial windows are Network Explorer/Toolbox, Properties, and a tabbed window for viewing Immediate, Locals, Breakpoints, Attributes, Output, and Messages. A blank gray area is reserved for the Designer. You can easily move and dock windows using the visual guide diamond or temporarily hide windows using Auto-Hide.

Network Explorer/Toolbox

Networks contain items that represent the connections and routes that are needed to create the network. The Network Explorer displays the items in those networks. From Network Explorer, you can open files for editing, add new files, and view the networks and item properties. The Toolbox provides a drag-and-drop network items to add to the network diagram in the Designer.

Network Designer

The Designers you use depend on the type of file or document you are authoring. The Text editor is the basic word processor of the IDE, while the Code editor is the basic source code editor. Other editors, such as the CSS editor, the HTML Designer, and the Web Page Designer, share many of the features found in the Code editor, along with enhancements specific to the type of code or markup supported. Editors and designers often have two views: a graphical design view and the code behind view or source view. Design view allows you to specify the location of controls and other items on the user interface or Web page. You can easily drag a control from the Toolbox and place it on the design surface. The Network Designer is further described in a later section.

Programming

Programming can be done in a variety of languages which are C#, Jscript, VBScript, and Visual Basic. The script languages run as unmanaged code. The .NET languages run a managed code.

Debugging

Start debugging by opening the code using and setting a break point on the code line.