Left a company over their inability to consider porting from an OVERLOADED VB6 app into something more modern. We needed to validate price lists off the web to get workers comp insurance payment values and that VB6 app couldn't do it. We had a lot more issues like processing time on the SQL server but that is another story altogether.
On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 7:54 AM, Man-wai Chang <[email protected]> wrote: > A lot of companies, notably of small and medium sizes, invested > heavily in writing > VB applications for company use! > > On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 7:38 PM, Alan Bourke <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Tue, 21 Jun 2016, at 04:27 PM, Paul Hill wrote: > > > >> VB was killed about a year after Fox > > > > Except crucially the VB6 runtimes have 'It Just Works' status meaning > > they will continue to work in future versions of Windows. > > -- > .~. Might, Courage, Vision. SINCERITY! > / v \ 64-bit Ubuntu 9.10 (Linux kernel 2.6.39.3) > /( _ )\ http://sites.google.com/site/changmw > ^ ^ May the Force and farces be with you! > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/cajidmykfqmo6-a56uog1fxvp4g5asvkbyile6i97snrrox4...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
