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VB Migration 101
Migrating from Visual Basic to REALbasic
Issue: 6.1 (November/December 2007)
Author: Paul Lefebvre
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Starting Page Number: 17
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You've all heard the news: Visual Basic is dead. Support for Microsoft Visual Basic 6 has pretty much ended and you will soon be completely on your own. Microsoft wants you to move to their powerful, but extremely complex .NET platform.
I can hear you all screaming "No!!! Say it isn't so." But it is so. So what are your options? The way I see it, you have these options:
Tough it out with Visual Basic
Switch to .NET
Switch to something else
Migrate to REALbasic
I'll cover each of these options and hopefully convince that you should strongly consider REALbasic.
Tough It Out with Visual Basic 6
The easiest option is to just stick with the status quo and use Visual Basic as you have been for years. It's worked this far, why not keep using it? Well, the world has not been standing still since Visual Basic 6 was released in 1998. Vista is out now and VB6 does not have any Vista support, although applications seems to work fine with it. For now. Mac OS X and Linux are also a lot more common now, which might be something you should consider.
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