Integrated Session

Imagine an APL session integrated with Visual Studio, now you no longer have to imagine, with Visual APL it is a reality.

Integrating APL with Visual Studio just would not be complete without an APL session. One of the strengths of the APL development process is the ability to run code in the session, testing various alternatives and developing complex concepts.

Visual APL introduces the session to Visual Studio. The Visual APL session integrated in Visual Studio provides all of the features you have come to expect from an APL session and a lot more.

We are quite proud to introduce this new session technology to the Visual Studio development platform. This is just one of many new technologies that Visual APL brings to Visual Studio.

You can run and test code just like you have always done in the session.

You can edit functions using the Visual Studio code editors. But even more than that, you can create entire scripts from the session. If your new to the term script, a legacy APL function is called a script in the .Net world.

In Visual APL you can have multiple functions and variable definitions in a single script file. You can even create classes in the scripts. You are no longer restricted to just a single function in a script, now you can create an entire concept in a single script.

The Visual APL session files are also part of the Visual Studio solution process and utilize all of the tools in Visual Studio.

Editing APL variables from the session utilizes the XML editing tools in Visual Studio. No matter how complex your APL variable, you can edit it from the session, using the extensive XML editing tools in Visual Studio.