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Visual Basic 6.0 just doesn’t want to disappear. Why ? Likely many have written vital applications using VB 6.0 and Visual Basic dot.net is so different that it is not a viable option. If you have thousands of lines of legacy VB code which can not be upgraded to dot.net easily, then what is a developer to do ? It
Read moreI have been following the tech news about what is called “Windows CORE OS” or “Windows Lite”. What I am most interested in is its ability to run WIN32 apps. I would like to briefly comment about this subject here. WIN32 is important. If Windows Core OS can run the core WIN32 API then it would benefit the operating system
Read moreHaving come from the old DOS days (Quick basic 4.5 and PDS 7.1), as well as the old Visual Basic (Classic) days (VB 1.0, 2.0 and 5.0 Pro), I think I have some experience with why Visual Basic was so popular, as well as some of its weaknesses. I understand why Visual Basic 6.0 is still popular today, even though
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