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...

Migrating from Visual Basic to REALbasic
October 29th, 2009, by Paul Lefebvre in Visual Basic
This is an updated version of an article that originally appeared in REALbasic Developer Magazine 6.1 (Nov/Dec 2007). 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...

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...