<p>I am interested in moving a number of my projects from Visual Studio and Access/Office Basic with a SQL back-end to the Linux world.  </p>

<p>Are there any utilities available to move code over to a similar platform on Linux?</p>

[{'answer_id': 33598, 'author': 'RyanBrady', 'author_id': 2555, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2555', 'pm_score': 3, 'selected': True, 'text': '<p>Here\'s a link to the <a href="http://www.mono-project.com/MoMA" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Mono Migration Analyzer</a> to get started.  It will help you pinpoint Microsoft specific calls, but you\'ll probably have to do the db conversion and data access layer manually.  You may be surprised - mono does have a System.Data.SqlClient namespace so you may not have much work to do.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 39343, 'author': 'roomaroo', 'author_id': 3464, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3464', 'pm_score': 1, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p><a href="http://openoffice.org" rel="nofollow noreferrer">OpenOffice</a> has a <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/BASIC_Guide" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Basic</a> interpreter which is largely compatible with VBA. This may help you with your Access applications. The OpenOffice versions should run on both Windows and Linux.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 1179135, 'author': 'Don Kirkby', 'author_id': 4794, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/4794', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>There are some flavours of OpenOffice that include native support for VBA. The version included with Ubuntu is one example, and the <a href="http://www.novell.com/products/openworkgroupsuite/product_evals.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Novell version for Windows</a> is another. For more details and a list of versions with this feature, see <a href="http://www.linux.com/archive/articles/58348" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this article on linux.com</a>.</p>\n\n<p>They don\'t support all features of VBA, but they will reduce your conversion effort.</p>\n'}]
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