RBDevZone Podcast #1
November 4th, 2009, by Paul Lefebvre in Podcast
The first RBDevZone Podcast is now available! Listen to Paul Lefebvre as he gives an overview of the latest REALbasic news and covers some of the changes in REALbasic 2009 Release 4.

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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...

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ARBP Chat with Aaron Ballman: Transcript Available
October 29th, 2009, by Paul Lefebvre in arbp
The chat transcript is now available for those that couldn’t make it. Yet again we ran into difficulty with our chat software, but we were able to muddle through it. This is the last chat we’ll be doing using this chat software. We’re investigating other options for future chats. Aaron...

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SQLite Manager on Sale
September 14th, 2009, by Paul Lefebvre in Databases
For those of you that use SQLite (REALSQLDatabase) with REALbasic, you might be interested to know that SQLite Manager (from SQLabs) is on sale at MacZot today for only $24 (half price)!

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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...

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ARBP Chat with Geoff Perlman Transcript
August 13th, 2009, by Paul Lefebvre in arbp
The chat transcript for last night’s chat with Geoff Perlman is now available at ARBP: ARBP Chat with Geoff Perlman Transcript After we worked through a few annoying technical difficulties, that chat went really well. Thank goodness I built a quick app in REALbasic to manage the incoming questions,...

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Lots of REALbasic News
August 3rd, 2009, by Paul Lefebvre in Current Notes, arbp
Colorado REALbasic Summit You asked for it; now you have it. There will be a REALbasic conference this year, but instead of it being hosted by REAL Software it will be jointly hosted by Inspiring Applications and the Association of REALbasic Professionals. And if you are an ARBP member you can save...

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REALbasic Reporting Tools
June 3rd, 2009, by Paul Lefebvre in Databases, Reports
Reporting Tools that work with REALbasic remain a hot topic, so I thought it would be worth a brief post to list the options that are currently available. On-Target Reports: $200 The oldest and most mature of the reporting solutions. It is a set of encrypted REALbasic classes that you drop in your project....

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Current Notes 57
May 4th, 2009, by Paul Lefebvre in Current Notes
Software REALbasic 2009 Release 2 – The most stable version of REALbasic ever! Formatted Text Control 1.5 – I finally bought this long-admired control PictureButton 1.0 – A new button class from Einhugur Einhugur Reports 1.0a2 – A very promising new reporting tool rbrw-core 0.8...

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Current Notes 56
March 30th, 2009, by Paul Lefebvre in Current Notes
Software fp Plugin 1.3 – Floating Point plugin update RSReport 2008.2.1 – Minor update to this interesting reporting alternative Ben’s Listbox Extras 1.3 – Update to this ListBox subclass Report Writer – The first version of an open-source report writer for REALbasic is...

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