It’s no secret that many Microsoft developers look down their nose at the System i platform. While it’s SQL implementation has matured quite nicely, System i vagaries such as file members, record level access, and open query file send many a Microsoft developer running for cover.

With ASNA Visual RPG (AVR) and DataGate, you can make your System i platform a first-class player in your network. AVR coders can surface System i data to VB.NET or C# through simple .NET classes or your VB.NET/C# coders can access the System i data directly from their language of choice. Using ASNA DataGate, it’s also very easy for your VB.NET/C# programmers to call OS/400 program objects. These .NET facilities work not only to make your System i more accessible to your Microsoft developers, but also to better integrate your RPG and Microsoft development teams.

The programs written to read and write System i data, and to call OS/400 program objects, are written with Microsoft’s Visual Studio—the world-class integrated development environment that AVR, VB.NET, and C# all share. By centralizing your development efforts around Visual Studio for all of your developers, not only will your RPG and Microsoft developers start sharing code and ideas, they will actually start to like each other!