Eicon Technology's Access Tools for Visual Basic is a communications programming tool that works in conjunction with Microsoft Visual Basic and Eicon's Access for Windows 3270 and/or 5250 (Release 3.21) emulation software.
The Access Tools contain a set of Visual Basic Custom Controls that xtract complicated EHLLAPI and DDE programming into 'drag and drop' perations. With Eicon Access Tools, host application programmers can edefine the user interface without touching the host application itself, or learning EHLLAPI. Therefore, Eicon Access Tools is to EHLLAPI as Visual Basic is to Windows programming - it shields the developer from having to learn complicated skills, allowing the focus to be on the business requirement.