VB6 Development
Developers Seek Alternative to VB6 Development
Visual Basic 6 (VB6) has been a leading programming language and development environment since the 1990s. Based on the much-respected Basic programming language, Visual Basic enabled developers without traditional software engineering training to nevertheless create highly sophisticated applications in a robust visual environment. VB6 development allowed developers to create graphical user interfaces (GUIs) by taking screen elements and components from a palette and placing them on a form that represented a screen view of the application being built. This method required developers to write hard code only for specific parts of the program, reducing the time and cost needed to develop applications. At the height of its popularity, Visual Basic was the primary IDE for more than three million developers. In recent years, however, Microsoft has announced plans to discontinue support for Visual Basic in its efforts to move developers to the .NET platform. Many developers are resisting this move and seeking a viable or even a h3er alternative to VB6 development. And for that reason, developers the world over are turning to Progress OpenEdge.
Progress OpenEdge Provides Superior Product to VB6 Development
Progress OpenEdge is a world-class platform for developing, deploying, integrating and managing critical business applications. In addition to development tools that surpass the functionality of VB6, OpenEdge also provides highly robust application servers to drive business-processing logic in deployment, flexible technology options to respond to integration needs, and advanced management and analysis tools for optimizing application performance. As an alternative to VB6 development, OpenEdge employs an Advanced Business Language that represents business processes as efficiently as possible, and supports object-oriented programming in addition to native interfaces for XML, Web services, and other major industry standards. With OpenEdge, developers can create APIs for Java clients, .NET clients, Java messaging, or even map database schema to XML formats, all within the OpenEdge environment and using its efficient ABL tools.
The Benefits of OpenEdge Development Tools Over VB .NET
OpenEdge was designed to be used by developers of business applications so it hides complexity of the underlying technology. In this regard, it's similar to the previous generation of VB. Developers that are currently skilled in Visual Basic 6, but are uninterested in learning how to program using the .NET platform will find a comfortable transition to OpenEdge.
Progress Software also provides application infrastructure solutions, business application integration solutions, database storage solutions, partner network solutions, SOA integration solutions, and Progress 4GL, an advanced programming language.
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