The company plans to reset its tools to work with new products expected to ship in the coming months, including Windows.Net Server and an update to the SQL Server database.

Chairman Bill Gates is expected to detail improvements planned for its Visual C++ tool to be included in a new release of the company’s Visual Studio.Net tools bundle.

Programs written in Visual Basic 6.0 can access Microsoft Access 2003 databases. Knowledge of programming elements, such as functions and loops, and knowledge of databases and SQL is required to write ...