A Familiar Environment

If you are a Visual Basic developer you will find Real Studio to be quite similar. Open a form, drag some controls onto it, double-click a control to add code. The development process and many of the commands are exactly the same. You can start being productive with Real Studio almost immediately.

"Compares favorably in capability with MS Visual Studio 2008. Less complicated to use than Visual Studio."

-Robert Rohland

Leverage Your Existing Skills

You may have spent years developing your Visual Basic skills and Real Studio allows you to continue to gain a return on your investment. Take your Visual Basic skills with you rather than starting over from scratch with a completely different environment. Commands you use often like DIM, STR, MID, LEFT, RIGHT, MSGBOX and more are all supported in Real Studio.

Port Your Code

Porting your applications from Visual Basic to Real Studio is a straightforward process. Real Software provides a Visual Basic Migration Assistant that will help you in the process. Most developers find that their projects port in hours or days, rather than weeks or months required in other environments.

Go Cross-Platform

Unlike Visual Basic, Real Studio is cross-platform, so you can now build Mac and Linux versions of your Visual Basic projects. More platforms mean more customers and more sales.

Great Support for Windows

Real Studio has great support for Windows technology. Your applications will be theme-savvy automatically and they will look and run correctly on Windows 2000, XP, Vista, and Windows 7. In addition, Real Studio supports many Windows-only technologies such as ActiveX, NotifyIcon and the Registry. You can also use the Declare command to make any Win32 API call you need.

Glowing reviews

For more information, read a Visual Basic programmer's review of Real Studio from Code Guru. Also, check out our white paper about porting VB apps to Linux and Mac OS X.