REALbasic Versus Visual Basic.pdf

REALbasic versus Visual Basic By Jerry Lee Ford, Jr. November 2006 When is comes to the development of Windows applications, REALbasic’s main competitor it Microsoft’s Visual Basic programming language. If you are a Windows programmer with a background in Visual Basic, you are going to find that REALbasic is remarkably similar to Visual Basic. As a result, you will be able to get up and running very quickly and will be able to leverage just about all of your Visual Basic programming experience. This is especially true for Visual Basic programmers with a Visual Basic 6 background because REALbasic very closely mirrors much of what is in Visual Basic 6. Programmers with a background based on Visual Basic .NET will also find the transition to REALbasic relatively smooth and will be able to bring over most of their Visual Basic programming experience, less any .NET specific features. Because REALbasic is so similar to Visual Basic, you will find that it is relatively easy to port your Visual Basic applications over to REALbasic. In fact, you will probably find that you can port your applications over in an hour or a day instead of weeks or months, as would be the case if you moved from Visual Basic over to another programming language such as C++ or Java. Visual Basic 6 is more similar to REALbasic than Visual Basic. NET. As a result, Visual Basic 6 applications will port over more easily, with less manual modification on your part. Porting over Visual Basic .NET applications will involved rewriting any Visual Basic .NET functionality with equivalent REALbasic statements. Visual Basic 6 Microsoft initially introduced Visual Basic in 1991. It became instantly popular as a programming language that was easy to learn and quickly led to a whole new generation of Windo