CONTACT
Sherry Harwin
Catalyst Development Corporation
(760) 228-9653
(760) 369-1185 (fax)
sherry@catalyst.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Catalyst Simplifies Internet Development

Yucca Valley, CA, May 23 1996 - Catalyst Development Corporation, providing Winsock compliant TCP/IP custom controls for Visual Basic and other VBX/ActiveX supported products, today announced the availability of a free, 30-day evaluation version of their highly respected Catalyst SocketTools suite of custom controls.

Available at http://www.catalyst.com, any code written with the trial version is completely functional after purchase and fully supported by the technical support staff during the trial.

The controls are designed to make integrating custom software with the Internet or intranet a breeze. Each of the 13 controls includes VBX and 16-bit ActiveX versions supported under Visual Basic 3.0/4.0 and 32-bit ActiveX versions supported with any compatible development environment, such as VB 4.0, Visual C++ 4.x, Delphi 2.0, and Optima ++ 1.0. All Windows platforms are supported, including Windows NT 4.0.

SocketTools includes the following components:

  • Domain Name Service (DNS) Control
  • File Transfer Protocol (FTP) Control
  • ICMP Echo (Ping) Control
  • Image Viewer Control
  • Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) Control
  • Post Office Protocol (POP3) Control
  • Remote Access Services (RAS) Control
  • Remote Command Execution Control
  • Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) Control
  • Telnet Control
  • Terminal Emulation Control
  • Web Browser Control
  • Windows Sockets (SocketWrench) Control
  • UUCODE and MIME Library (DLL) API
  • Image Library (DLL) API

Each control hosts a large number of properties, events, and methods that provides both simplicity and efficiency yet offers great flexibility and power. The Web Browser offers the best of both worlds: a powerful browser with complete rendering capabilities that can be easily customized to meet the needs of your application. Although the Web control offers many options in the form of properties, events, and methods, programmers can create their own custom browser by simply dropping the control on a form, creating a text and button control, and setting the Resource property. And when integrated with other controls, a full-featured, Internet-enabled application can be built in just minutes.

Each control is highlighted in a sample that clearly shows how the protocol is used with simple and easy-to-follow code that can be re-used in development projects. All samples are designed to be useful utilities that highlight the power of the control, yet can be part of a programming arsenal of tools for use on the Internet. Some of the included samples are ST/FTP, ST/Netcheck, ST/Mail, ST/Newsreader, ST/Telnet with ANSI emulation, and ST/WebBrowser.

Catalyst SocketTools is delivered electronically within 1 hour, 7 days a week and costs $247. An evaluation copy is available for download from the web site and all code developed during the trial period can still be used. The package comes with a 30 day money-back guarantee and is free of run time licensing or royalty fees.

Catalyst Development continues its goal of empowering programmers with the knowledge and the products to easily integrate their applications with the Internet or intranet.