ASNA, a BluePhoenix company, and a Microsoft Visual Studio Industry Partner, has announced it plans to ship ASNA Visual RPG 10 (AVR) in July. This version of Asna Visual RPG works with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010.

AVR is a .NET-based RPG compiler that works from within Visual Studio just as VB.NET and C# do. AVR compiles to native MSIL code and supports intrinsic Visual Studio features such as its Windows and Web designers, Intellisense, its debugger, and its deployment tools. Visual Studio 2010 offers many enhancements and features, such as improved multi-monitor support, new debugging features, and a new-from-the-ground-up code editor.

“We’re very excited about AVR 10," says Eduardo Ross, ASNA vice president of Technology. "The refinements and enhancements offered by Visual Studio 2010 make AVR 10 our most polished, exciting .NET-based product yet." He said that with AVR 10, ASNA will ship the ASNA DataGate Server Explorer, a DataGate database server management and administrative suite, which is tightly integrated into Visual Studio 2010. "AVR 10 provides a single integrated environment for all of your development needs,” says Ross.

ASNA’s DataGate Server Explorer works from within Visual Studio 2010 to let developers work with DataGate database connections, libraries, files, and objects. Everything the developer needs for database-related work is offered directly within the DataGate Server Explorer—it is a replacement for the free-standing ASNA Database Manager that shipped with previous versions of AVR.

In additional to its tight integration with Visual Studio 2010, ASNA also announced that AVR 10 will work with the Microsoft Visual Studio Shell. For AVR 10 developers who don’t need VB.NET or C#, this offers a no-cost way to acquire the necessary host shell for AVR 10. (Learn more about the Microsoft Visual Studio Shell at http://bit.ly/cOaWEI).

AVR 10 is a free upgrade for licensed users of AVR 9.x. It requires either Visual Studio 2010 or the Microsoft Visual Studio Shell.

About ASNA

Amalgamated Software of North America, Inc. (ASNA), a division of BluePhoenix Solutions (NASDAQ: BPHX), provides a proven solution suite of flexible products and services allowing its clients to gradually or in totality modernize, integrate, migrate, and extend System i assets to the .NET and/or SQL Server standard at a reasonable cost and in orders of magnitude faster than rewriting or replacing with a package. These solutions result in a safe, risk limiting extension to the life and value of the IT assets while achieving an extraordinary ROA (return on assets). ASNA’s experience since 1982 with singular focus on the midrange market, coupled with its automated tools and abundant successful modernizations, puts ASNA in a market leading position in the midrange modernization and migration space. For more information, visit http://www.asna.com/.