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Migrating Visual Basic Applications?

Posted by Cliff on from the from-dogs-to-penguins dept.

goose69 asks: "I was looking at the various options available to migrate Visual Basic applications on to GNU/Linux , as usual the choices were many from Free Solutions like wxWindows, Gambas, vb2py, to proprietary ones like Phoenix, and so on. Unfortunately, Mono was too much with its multiple licenses. I want to know if anyone out there has done a successful migrations from Visual Basic on Windows to any application framework on GNU/Linux."

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  1. Re:You may not like it, but.... by lordDallan · · Score: 5, Informative

    The about to be released version of RealBasic does allow the IDE to run on Linux and is written in RealBasic.

    This implies that its Linux support will be more robust than the current version's.

    Also, if you have a VB 6 license, you can get a free RealBasic Standard for Windows license through April 15th.

    One thing to look out for if your writing a RealBasic application for Linux is DB support. There are many database plugins for RB but I've had issues getting some of them to work properly on Linux (though it's been awhile since I've tried so things may have improved).

    Anyway, if you're a licensed VB6 user, you probably have a Windows machine, so why not get the free RB license and give it a whirl. It is a "better basic" than VB6, mostly because it's a real OOP environment and is actively being worked on by a company that lives or dies on it being a good product.

    HTH

  2. Re:You may not like it, but.... by ikilledmidnight · · Score: 4, Informative

    the linux version of the IDE isn't out yet and is going to premier with the new version of realbasic (RealBasic 2005) realbasic has been able to conpile for linux from about version 3/4. some screenshots from Realbasic 2005: IDE, IDE 2, compiled app