From the Database to the User Interface and across the Internet
With the addition of SQLitePlus to our product line, we now have an "end-to-end" solution for your distributed applications.  SQLitePlus is a powerful, easy to distribute SQL database engine (single COM DLL), that stores all of your application data in a single file, similar to Microsoft Access.  Combined with our user-interface products - HSP and WOW, you have a powerful set of tools for your Windows applications.

HTML in Windows Applications
If you look at the new products coming out of companies like Microsoft and Symantec, you see that they are embedding the Microsoft webbrowser control with standard Windows controls to achieve a mixed HTML/Windows look and feel in their programs (for example, Office, MS Money and Visual Studio.NET).  Our products make it possible for you to do the same thing with amazing simplicity and speed, to achieve incredibly good looking and highly functional user interfaces.

A New Programming Paradigm: HSP, EzWeb Compiler (aka EzStor) and WOW
Using WOW and HSP with EzStor content storage files in Windows programs is a powerful combination. Wow + HSP allows you to turn the IE webbrowser control into a programmable, interactive ActiveX control.

HSP runs standard ASP pages in the WOW control on the client machine with no webserver involved - seamlessly.  WOW adds key functionality to the Microsoft webbrowser control to make it interactive.  For example, to fire an event in your program code when a hyperlink is clicked in the HTML page.

You use EzStor to create "content storage files" that contain all of your webpages and content to distribute with your app. This is so that don't have to distribute potentially dozens or hundreds of content files along with your other program files (files that can be edited or deleted by end-users). They represent program code, so you couldn't just have them lying around where users can change or delete them (or expose your intellectual property). This is where EzStor comes in. Use EzStor to package up all of your web and ASP pages and graphic files into a single file to be referenced by HSP and the WOW control. And you'll use the EzStor or HSP Pluggable Protocols to enable Internet Explorer to read directly from these EzStor files. You can even copy protect your EzStor files by requiring a machine license to open or run them.

There are huge advantages to program development using this system. Besides all of the benefits of the rich graphics and rendering capabilities of Internet Explorer and HTML, a significant, yet important segment of the User Interface development work can be off-loaded from the Windows programmer. That is, all of the HTML content can be given to webpage programmers and graphics designers, then dropped right into the application. And the content can be evolved as the project moves forward. Remember, its not hard-coded so no re-compiles are necessary, except, of course where there are new or modified application callbacks. You will experience huge development time savings using this system, besides the amazing data and graphic rendering benefits of IE.  The Microsoft webbrowser control is an intregral part of the Windows operating system, and will be there for as long as Windows is with us.  And all of our products work with all versions of Windows (Win95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP), so you won't have version issues when you ship your products.

Hyperlink your data

One of the most powerful features of HTML is the ability to hyperlink to other pages.  You can take advantage of the power of hyperlinking to hyperlink your relational data.  Using hyperlinks with HTML/ASP pages (run by HSP) gives you the ability to link the data in your relational database any way possible (for example Customer records to Order records at the click of the mouse).  download our EzReg program and see this working in practice.

Call your VB, Delphi, .NET, Access or C++ App from a webpage!

Here's what people are saying about EzTools:

• "Your products are AWESOME!!!!! I appreciate all your help. Thanks a lot! "
  - Ramil Domingo
   

• "I've had so much fun using your HotList ActiveX control!!, it's really great! I have been searching & searching for some kind of control that can support multiple text items, multiple graphics & multi-line text. When I saw your web page I knew I had found the hottest ActiveX I've ever seen!! You can bet I will check out your other products too."
  - Kim Burndred
   

• "We're getting ready for a release. This control has really made it easy to add web displays to the User Interface. Thanks."
  - John Joyce
   

• "Thanks so much for your help -- it's amazing to get this level of support even through the trial version of your product."
  - Shawn Captain
   

• "Thank you very much for working through this with me - the solution is fantastic. It's saved a huge amount of time. I think I'll be getting a lot of use out of these tools."
  - Greg Maher
   

• "I have an Asset Management program that is a WIN32 client with a MSDE 2000 backend. I run all the reports as HTML reports that are generated through ASP. Using HSP allows me to distribute my program to the customer without having the expense for a reporting engine such as Crystal Reports. It also allows me to remove IIS from the picture allowing the program to run on all platforms. I originally used IIS and PWS in my beta release but ran into problems on a Windows ME OS. It seems Windows ME does not support PWS at all and your product came to the rescue allowing me to support that OS and my customer."
  - Thearon Willis
   

• "You have made my week. I have a beta to release on Monday and this helps tremendously. It’s refreshing to see such proactive support in a software company. I’m very impressed. Thanks for the precise answers to my questions and for the new feature."
  - Shannon
   

• "I also want to express how exited I am for your products. Both the HSP and EzToolsLib are great products, and have made it possible for us to make much more sophisticated solutions than we planned to."
  - Erik Borgen, www.xpress.dk

• "I must say, you guys deliver very good and prompt service! Even whilst I am on the other side of the globe...I wish all companies were like yours!"
  - Rob Gravesteijn

• "HSP is making our lives much easier! Especially when customers want to check out early drafts from large ASP-sites, HSP can perform miracles by just sending the site as one big block together with HSPINST.EXE to them.  I really appreciate your help and think that you have done a great job with your products."
  - Ruud van Gestel 

• "I've been looking for a product like this for a long time.   Other products promised results but in practice behaved flakily or just didn't work right. HSP delivers exactly what I need."
  - CJ va Schalkwyk

Our products are .NET ready and work with:

• Visual Basic

• Internet Explorer

• C++

• C#/VB.NET

• Delphi

• Microsoft Access

• MacroMedia Director

• Visual FoxPro

• Any ActiveX compatible container

These are seriously innovative tools for programmers who want more than just "the usual" in their user interfaces.  The more you understand our products, the more you'll come to realize what fantastic things you can do with them.

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-Marc