Fawcette Technical Publications to Deliver Live Webcast of First Public Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Demonstration; June 22nd Webcast is part of VBITS'98 Conference Keynote.

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 16, 1998--Fawcette Technical Publications (FTP) announced today that it will deliver a live Web broadcast of the first public demonstration of Microsoft(R) Visual Basic 6.0(R). The demonstration will be part of VBITS'98 Conference keynote address, which the company will transmit live through the Web on June 22, 1998, from New York, NY.

"Our readers and online users are the industry's leading Windows(R) developers, and this Webcast helps them get this information directly from the source," said James E. Fawcette, FTP president. "We're pleased to work with Microsoft to make this presentation and demonstration available to the development community."

"This event is particularly exciting because it offers us a way to reach the over 3.2 million professional VB developers worldwide," added Sean Alexander, Technical Product Manager, Visual Basic Group, Microsoft. "The Visual Basic team is very excited about this opportunity to present Visual Basic 6.0 to the developer community, and look forward to working with Fawcette to make future events of its kind available via Internet simulcasts."

As part of his VBITS'98 keynote address, David Stutz, architect on the Visual Studio team at Microsoft, will present a high-level overview of Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0's new language features, new visual designer tools, and new support for building multi-tier and distributed applications.

VBITS'98 will also feature a keynote presentation highlighting the new features of Microsoft SQL Server 7.0, and sessions from industry experts on important topics such as creating COM components that work well across different language (VB/VBA/C++, VJ++ & Scripting Languages), building Reliable, Efficient multi-Tier Apps with Visual Basic, Microsoft Message Queue, SQL, Microsoft Transaction Server and Internet Information Server, and Multithreading Applications and Servers.

Details on participating in the Webcast are available at FTP's Development Exchange http://www.devx.com and the Micros site at http://www.vbits98.com.

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