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Mac News: Real Software releases Visual Basic migration tool

05.08.2009
Real Software hopes to make it easier for developers to move to its RealBasic cross-platform development application. On Tuesday, the company released VB Migration Assistant, which helps programs move applications from Visual Basic to RealBasic. Real Software says the migration tool lets developers port code more easily than copying and pasting.

With the VB Migration Assistant, users can map Visual Basic controls to specific RealBasic controls and move forms, classes, and modules to a RealBasic Project. The migration tool also copies all of a program's code and comments it out, so users can convert code one method at a time.

VB Migration Assistant is available as a . The migration tools works with Visual Basic 5 and 6 projects.--

SimpleLeap Software has released Cram, a flash card- and multiple-choice test-based study tool. Tuesday's release of follows three months of beta testing for the software.

The 1.0 release features interface refinements from the beta versions. Cram 1.0 also integrates Twitter into the test-preparation application, allowing users to have test scores tweeted after grading.