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Extending Classic (6.0) Visual Basic – Part 1

September 4, 2019 Chris Boss

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

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Avoiding Planned Obsolescence in Software Development.

February 28, 2012 Chris Boss

As a programmer one of the things that I come across which is rarely appreciated is that planned obsolescence of software is forced by the development tools one uses and that few appreciate the value of designing software in ways which allow people to use existing computer hardware longer. As I type this article, I am doing so on an

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