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Most Windows developers when migrate to Ubuntu miss their hard practiced and well known Visual Basic or Visual Studio where they built apps with easy programming and GUI designing tools. There are many other similar Developing tools for Linux which are free and open source for developing apps on Ubuntu. But for those who don't want to go for a hard way to learn new things from the beginning and continue doing the well mastered way of creating apps, there is a tool called Gambas which I can say is exactly similar to Visual Studio. Gambas website says Gambas almost means Visual Basic but its not a replica, even the language used to develop apps is same.
So if you are a Windows developer developing apps on Windows and want so shift to Ubuntu but cannot because you probably don't want to learn another programming language and learn using a new SDK you will be surprised to see how efficiently Gambas works. You can app PictureBoxes, Text Labels, Color Picker and attach a code to any action performed.
To install Gambas on your Ubuntu simple open Ubuntu Software Center and enter Gambas in the top right search box, you will find a Gambas2 which is 2nd version of Gambas. Install it and launch it through Applications > Programming > Gambas.
There is a Release Candidate Gambas v3 on Gambas website http://gambas.sourceforge.net/en/main.html . But you will have to compile it yourself, rather if you are a newbe just install Gambas v2 from Ubuntu Software Center.
Above pic shows Gambas2 GUI designer.
Place to write code for the application which looks similar to one in Visual Basic 6.
Most Windows developers when migrate to Ubuntu miss their hard practiced and well known Visual Basic or Visual Studio where they built apps with easy programming and GUI designing tools. There are many other similar Developing tools for Linux which are free and open source for developing apps on Ubuntu. But for those who don't want to go for a hard way to learn new things from the beginning and continue doing the well mastered way of creating apps, there is a tool called Gambas which I can say is exactly similar to Visual Studio. Gambas website says Gambas almost means Visual Basic but its not a replica, even the language used to develop apps is same.
So if you are a Windows developer developing apps on Windows and want so shift to Ubuntu but cannot because you probably don't want to learn another programming language and learn using a new SDK you will be surprised to see how efficiently Gambas works. You can app PictureBoxes, Text Labels, Color Picker and attach a code to any action performed.
To install Gambas on your Ubuntu simple open Ubuntu Software Center and enter Gambas in the top right search box, you will find a Gambas2 which is 2nd version of Gambas. Install it and launch it through Applications > Programming > Gambas.
There is a Release Candidate Gambas v3 on Gambas website http://gambas.sourceforge.net/en/main.html . But you will have to compile it yourself, rather if you are a newbe just install Gambas v2 from Ubuntu Software Center.
Above pic shows Gambas2 GUI designer.
Place to write code for the application which looks similar to one in Visual Basic 6.
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