Integrated Visual Programming Environment

 Abstract—The process of programming includes the creation, compilation, and execution of programs to perform a specific task. The Visual Programming Environment (VPE) provides visual approaches to programming for writing programs graphically, such type of programming platform benefits in rapid prototyping, visual representation of data flow - understanding the logic of the program, and visual debugging. Our approach improves integrated development by way of platform independence combining modules developed using various environments including Microsoft .NET, JAVA, Windows Shell, Win32, COM, MATLAB and Web Services. This paper explores an Integrated Visual Programming Environment (IVPE), including concepts of a network as a system and icon based programming with utility in domainspecific applications such as image processing, algorithm performance measurement, etc. Our newly developed IVPE, Visual Sequencer (VIsual SequencER - VISER) provides an environment for integrating run-time components such as .NET (managed DLL assemblies), Java (class files), MATLAB (DLLs generated by mcc matlab compiler), Win32 (unmanaged DLL libraries), COM objects, and Web Services (WSDL supported). We have also presented some test cases of image processing which utilizes various processing modules from various programming environments.