Re: Visual Age RPG and .NET environment

["M. Lazarus" <mlazarus@xxxxxxxx>]

Mike,

At 3/14/03 07:36 PM, you wrote:
> BABY/iSeries from California Software is supported in .net and is much
> easier to use than ASNA and is available now.

1)  How compatible are they to original code migrated from the /400?  There 
are going to be some obvious differences due to platform and file system 
anomalies, but is there a conversion utility that will rectify these 
differences?

2)  How is their tech support now?  The last time I dealt w/ them their 
tech support was *horrible*!

 -mark

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob Cozzi" <cozzi@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: "'RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries'" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 6:48 AM
> Subject: RE: Visual Age RPG and .NET environment
>
>
> > Visual Age for RPG is NOT supported in the .NET environment.
> > What is or will be shortly supported is Asna's RPG compiler, which is much
> > easier to use than the IBM Visual Age tool.
> >
> > Bob
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > On Behalf Of Bartell, Aaron L. (TC)
> > Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 8:34 AM
> > To: 'RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries'
> > Subject: Visual Age RPG and .NET environment
> >
> >
> > Last week my manager had me attend a .NET session and I was totally blown
> > away to say the least.  I have kinda been against Microsoft in the past,
> but
> > the tools and concepts that they are coming out with are definitely
> leading
> > the pack (from what I have seen).
> >
> > Anyways, on to my question. . .  Has anyone used Visual Age RPG in the
> .NET
> > environment?  Yes it is supported as a .NET language, which means you can
> > use the M$ Visual Studio IDE to build and create your apps.  Here is the
> > link if you don't believe me:-)
> > http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/partners/language/asna.asp
> >
> > TIA for any experience anybody can share,
> > Aaron Bartell