WorkFrame gives you a productive place to create and manage your C++ code. With Build Smarts, you can build code in debug, browse, and optimized modes without having to manage compiler options manually. With WorkFrame, you move naturally from tool to tool. In addition, Project Smarts gives you automatically configured skeleton applications to start your coding immediately.

WorkFrame gives you a view of your project that puts all the tools and information in one window for easy and fast access. No matter what the complexity or the number of projects you have to deal with, WorkFrame can provide the required access in an optimized way.

Build Smarts provides a quick way to switch between the most common build options. Simply specify whether your code needs to be debugged, browsed, or optimized, and leave the details of changing compiler and linker options to WorkFrame. If you want to deal with the full breadth of the VisualAge for C++ compiler's flexibility, you can still access all compiler and linker options through dialogs.

There is a menubar and toolbar in each project window. If you are more comfortable with direct manipulation, you can use popup menus to start actions or perform file operations.

Tools launched from projects have access to all actions defined in the project. When you choose source files to edit, you can ask for the project to be built right from the Editor. When the project builds cleanly, you can start the Debugger (or any other tool you like) also right from the Editor.
