NS BASIC Corporation is now shipping The Big Red Toolbox, a set of extensions to the NS Basic/CE development environment. Written by some of the top Windows developers in North America, the tools add powerful capabilities:

• Display HTML documents with the HTML control
• Show JPEGs, bitmaps and much more with the improved PictureBox control
• Use completely new Treeview and ListView controls
• Add sliders, trackbars and progress indicators
• Make powerful dialog boxes easily with new Dialogbox tool.
• Create and edit Pocket Word files with RichText control
• Schedule events with the new Timer control
• Put up standard system reminders with the new User Notification control
• Update and edit the Registry with new API functions
• Access the Clipboard from your program
• Use over 35 new system calls
• Manipulate the icons in the tray on the taskbar
• Use a new Installer tool

The best part is that the new capabilities are no charge to NS Basic/CE users. To promote an independent development environment for Windows CE, the tools in The Big Red Toolbox have been generously donated by their creators.

"With these extensions, NS Basic/CE is the most powerful, easy to use development environment on Windows CE", said George Henne, President of NS BASIC Corporation. "When we designed NS Basic/CE, we purposely made it easy to add third party extensions. Even so, I'm truly impressed by what has been done. The new features will help developers create great new productivity tools, business applications and games."

The tools come with full documentation and lots of sample code. They can be downloaded from the NS Basic website.

NS Basic/CE is a complete BASIC development environment that runs completely on a Windows CE device. It features a Visual Designer, serial, file and web I/O, financial and scientific functions and much more. It's easy to use, and comes with a 200 page Handbook as well as lots of sample code.

NS Basic/CE runs on all HPC/Pro devices; HPC devices with Windows CE 2.0 and palm-size PC devices running Windows CE 2.11. List price is $99.95 USD.

Links:

The Big Red Toolbox
http://nsbasic.com/ce/info/BigRedToolbox/

Product Information
http://www.nsbasic.com

Where to buy
http://www.nsbasic.com/ce/order/orderformce.shtml