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| discontinued = yes

| latest_release_version = VSE v3.2.0 (a.k.a. VSE2000)

| latest_release_date = {{ReleaseStart date and age|2000|09}}

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| operating system = [[MS-DOS]], [[Windows]], [[OS/2]]

| language = English

| status = Unmaintained

| genre = [[Integrated Development Environment]]

| license = [[Commercial software|Commercial]]

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== PARTS Workbench ==

Visual Smalltalk Enterprise usually comes with another sub-system called the PARTS Workbench. This system allows the layout of components, which can then be connected using a visual representation of event-message links. Programmers can add scripts to particular components and build nested-components. They can also enhance the functionality of the main VSE Smalltalk system and use that within the PARTS Workbench.

Although the PARTS Workbench allows very easy development of small systems (somewhat after the style of Visual Basic) it is argued that it encourages fragmentary development. The natural style of using this system tends to lead to lots ofmany links and scripts - it is not based around the idea of 'model' (as used in '[[Model–View–Controller]]' approaches common in many Smalltalks as well as in other languages). However, as an 'HCI' for programmers, the PARTS Workbench has many features that are not in modern Smalltalks. It has an immediacy that makes it very good for introductory teaching and for rapidly implementing programs with visual interfaces.

==Copyrights, licensing==

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| Virtual machine

| Seagull

| Seagull owns VSE. Cincom has the right to sell it and provide support.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://groups.google.co.uk/group/comp.lang.smalltalk/msg/2979f8877244937f?hl=en&|title = Comp.lang.smalltalk - Google Groups}}</ref>

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| Early employee of Digitalk and significant contributor to Smalltalk/V Win and PM and VSE.

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| [[Allen Wirfs-Brock]]

| Chief scientist at Digitalk-ParcPlace. Currently works for [[Mozilla]].

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*The VSE Mailing List: [http://www.listserv.dfn.de/archives/vswe-l.html VSWE-L]

*[http://www.seagullsoftware.com/ Seagull Software Systems, Inc.]

*Cincom Page about VSE:[http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/userblogs/cincom/blogView?content=vse http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/userblogs/cincom/blogView?content=vse] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723005517/http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/userblogs/cincom/blogView?content=vse |date=2011-07-23 }}

*Threads of discussion about copyright and licensing:

**[http://groups.google.co.uk/group/comp.lang.smalltalk/browse_thread/thread/187e48c4b968acf6/2979f8877244937f comp.lang.smalltalk Apr. 2005]