The BALARAD Embird Suite is a computerized embroidery, cross stitch and quilting software used for management, editing, lettering, digitizing and creating embroidery designs. It has embroidery file formats of more than 70 and supports 20 home and industrial machine brands. The Basic Embird program is used in resizing, editing, splitting, converting and printing embroidery designs using two modes, the Embird Manager and The Embird Editor. The Embird Manager converts designs into embroidery and quilting file formats and process them in ZIP and RAR archives, supports hoop types and sizes, makes animated screen savers and .GIFs, it gives a 3D preview of designs so user can assign proper colors to needles and to check the design without embroidering, it has several thread catalogs, and it can display 1:1 scale of designs. The Embird Editod allows inserting and deleting of colors or trims into the design. Free-hand splitting and automatic splitting are supported which joins and splits designs, it simulates sewing in 3D mode, allows editing of stitches individually or parts of the design, and it allows moving and resizing with density adjustment. The Embird Suite comes with plug-ins, the Embird Studio digitizing software, Sfumato stitch, Embird Cross Stitch, Font Engine and Iconizer.
Microsoft Visual Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) produced by Microsoft. It has a code editor that supports syntax highlighting and code completion using IntelliSense for not only variables, functions and methods but also language constructs like loops and queries; includes a debugger that works both as a source-level debugger and as a machine-level debugger; includes a host of visual designers to aid in the development of applications and other tools. Visual Studio permits developers to write extensions for Visual Studio to expand its capabilities. These extensions are linked to Visual Studio and extend its functionality. Extensions come in the form of macros, add-ins, and packages. Macros represent repeatable tasks and actions that developers can write programmatically for saving, replaying, and distributing; add-ins gives access to the Visual Studio object model and can interact with the IDE tools; and packages can create designers and other tools, as well as integrate other programming languages.