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Summary: Great MS Developmental tool
Review: This is a great tool! I have use it with numberous MS office apps, created games, software from Db and Dna 2k utilization. Going from Quick Basic to VB3 to VB5. VB6 has the better libray and the ultilization of COM+ and DirectX the horizon is virtually endless.
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Summary: Good for end-user interface but not much else
Review: VB is probably the best language Microsoft has spit up so far. This latest edition adds some nice features for doing tasks with minimal thought. It's really worthless for trying to do anything beyond simple programs(Meaning not much code) created using pre-done libraries and controls(*.OCX). But that's what's so nice about it. Let's say you developed foo program for bar OS (Foo and Bar are standard variables used commonly in programming groups), and wanted to bring it over to windows, making all of foo's features excessible through GUI. Simple enough, just copy the source not associated with bar's GUI and compile it into a DLL or OCX then use VB to associate methods and with the Windows GUI. Very handy especially when doing cross platform development. The main reason it lost points with me is due to the price...truly insane! I could see even $100 being tolerable but $500 is ludicrous, but I guess this price just reminds us that Micro$oft is behind this, otherwise decent, tool.Note: Any kiddies out their wanting to learn a language, DON'T start with this(Try Perl instead). It teaches terrible habits that are hard to grow out of, making it difficult to learn other languages, and will get you reamed by your college professors. The major things are: 1)Everything is shown while typeing. So typing in "foobar." shows everything associated with foobar. 2)Case errors are automatically corrected. 3)Variable types are too easy to work with. There are very few real languages that let you call a 'variant' type (Although Perl handles most of it's types of variables in a similar manner). Hope this helped anyone considering spending the $500.
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Summary: Good for end-user interface but not much else
Review: VB is probably the best language Microsoft has spit up so far. This latest edition adds some nice features for doing tasks with minimal thought. It's really worthless for trying to do anything beyond simple programs(Meaning not much code) created using pre-done libraries and controls(*.OCX). But that's what's so nice about it. Let's say you developed foo program for bar OS (Foo and Bar are standard variables used commonly in programming groups), and wanted to bring it over to windows, making all of foo's features excessible through GUI. Simple enough, just copy the source not associated with bar's GUI and compile it into a DLL or OCX then use VB to associate methods and with the Windows GUI. Very handy especially when doing cross platform development. The main reason it lost points with me is due to the price...truly insane! I could see even $100 being tolerable but $500 is ludicrous, but I guess this price just reminds us that Micro$oft is behind this, otherwise decent, tool. Note: Any kiddies out their wanting to learn a language, DON'T start with this(Try Perl instead). It teaches terrible habits that are hard to grow out of, making it difficult to learn other languages, and will get you reamed by your college professors. The major things are: 1)Everything is shown while typeing. So typing in "foobar." shows everything associated with foobar. 2)Case errors are automatically corrected. 3)Variable types are too easy to work with. There are very few real languages that let you call a 'variant' type (Although Perl handles most of it's types of variables in a similar manner). Hope this helped anyone considering spending the $500.
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Summary: An "ok" language
Review: Visual Basic 6 is a very easy to learn language. If you have ANY knowledge of programming at all, then you will be able to pick it up in under a week. If you are a beginner, then this is the language for you. I was writing trainers for games with this language in under 10 days, and i'm only 14.
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Summary: An "ok" language
Review: Visual Basic 6 is a very easy to learn language. If you have ANY knowledge of programming at all, then you will be able to pick it up in under a week. If you are a beginner, then this is the language for you. I was writing trainers for games with this language in under 10 days, and i'm only 14.
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Summary: No need to compare VC++ wiyh VB
Review: Which Development tool should I use it is purely based on you requrirements. For Ex:If I need to write Lotus API or Device Drivers or some communication programs or DLLS we dont have many choices only thing is VC++/C++. VB can't do all these things. VB is a very good development tool to develop application very fast. In my view VC++ is a great tool which has reduced lots of my time in developing better software.
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