REAL Studio: About the Name Change
February 19th, 2010, by Paul Lefebvre in General, IDE, Language, Visual Basic
Starting with 2010 Release 1, REALbasic is now known as REAL Studio. Here are the new edition names: Old Name New Name REALbasic Personal REAL Studio Personal REALbasic Professional REAL Studio Professional REAL Studio REAL Studio Enterprise There is a recent thread on the REAL Software...

CallByName Function
September 9th, 2009, by Paul Lefebvre in General, Source Code, Tutorial, Visual Basic
A post in the REAL Software forums asked if REALbasic has a CallByName function like VB has. After reviewing my answer and the CallByName function in VB, I am presenting a more thorough solution here. First, REALbasic does not have CallByName. However, it does have Introspection (aka reflection) which...

REAL Studio Announced
March 18th, 2009, by Paul Lefebvre in General
[Updated 3/19/2008 to reflect REAL's change to the Pro package] The cat is out of the bag: REAL Software has announced REAL Studio, a new edition of REALbasic. You can find out more from the REAL Studio FAQ. So what’s the difference? REAL Studio has a much higher price: $1500. It also the following: a...

New: SQLite Migrator 1.3.0
February 2nd, 2009, by Paul Lefebvre in Databases, Featured Articles, General
If you use REALbasic’s built-in database engine, then you may find SQLite Migrator useful. It allows you to migrate any database that you can connect to using ODBC to SQLite/REALSQLDatabase. It works great with Access, FoxPro, MySQL and just about any database you might be using.

Squidoo Updates
January 28th, 2009, by Paul Lefebvre in General
The REALbasic Squidoo page has been updated. I added some new stuff and cleaned up what was there. Check it out: http://www.squidoo.com/realbasic

REAL Software Affiliate
January 27th, 2009, by Paul Lefebvre in General
A short while ago, REAL Software announced their new affiliate program. I’m proud to announce that RBDevZone has been approved and is now an official REAL Software Affiliate Site. If you’re looking to purchase some new licenses of REALbasic or REAL Server, I get a small commission if you...

Malware Attack!
January 20th, 2009, by Paul Lefebvre in General
It appears that two of the custom themes I have been using for RBDevZone were infected with malware sometime last night. I have no idea how, but there must have been some security flaw in them. I have reverted back to the default WordPress theme, for the time being. I apologize for any inconvenience...

REALbasic and Cocoa
December 12th, 2008, by Paul Lefebvre in General
If you haven’t already received it, the REALbasic Newsletter came out today and it had a little teaser for the upcoming Cocoa functionality. There’s mention of Mac OS X Leopard-style windows, spell checking and pictures in EditFields, and HUD windows: Looks pretty slick to me. To get the...

ARBP Member Discounts
December 4th, 2008, by Paul Lefebvre in General
As you hopefully have heard by now, ARBP is now open for business and taking memberships. And the best deal going right now is an ARBP Professional membership, which costs $150. I can already hear you asking, “What do I get for my $150″? Here’s the answer: A lot. For starters, you...

Notable New REALbasic Features
December 1st, 2008, by Paul Lefebvre in General
Someone on the LinkedIn REALbasic group asked a question last week: “All new features of RB – anyone using them?” In it, the user said they still use REALbasic 2007 Release 5 and were wondering if the new features that have been added since then were worthwhile. I responded with a...