Visual Studio 97 targets developers and teams that create dynamic, Web-based applications or other distributed apps. Many of the additions to existing Microsoft developer products are aimed at simplifying the creation and use of ActiveX components. Mary Kirtland
Getting MSN™COM objects are becoming more and more important. Many cool Windows features like shell extensions and ActiveX are only available through COM. Visual C++ 5.0 does COM right with new compiler directives and integrated support for ATL.
George Shepherd
Using the right tool for building an application is one thing, but what about debugging? Visual Studio integrates Visual Basic and Visual C++ so you can code different parts of your application with different languages and debug them simultaneously.
