Didier Juges wrote: >Mike, > >Visual Basic is the normal evolution for old Basic programs like yours. >You can directly reuse the source code for most of your algorithms, but >you will have to rewrite the user interface. VB makes it really easy to >generate a good looking visual interface that will make your program >look professional. Of course, VB is Windows only. > >The most popular versions (in my opinion, not a scientific study :-) are: >1) VB 3.0, the oldest version that one might want to consider using >because it was quite popular and useful, and I happen to have an old >legitimate copy that I do not use anymore and I would be glad to let you >have it for you to play with (and do such silly things as convert your >old DOS BASIC programs...) if I can find it, >2) VB 6.0, the one I am currently using most, because it is WIDELY >popular and used by a lot of professional software writers and very well >supported by various groups on the Internet, and >3) VB.NET, the current version, where VB stands for Very Bloated. Nuf said. > >Being a MSDN licensee, I have access to all versions but I prefer VB 6.0 >for general Windows software. > >Let me know if you are interested, I will dig up my old VB 3.0 disks. > >Didier KO4BB > > > Deleted mikes comments
>Mike Feher > Are any of the versions of Visual basic still sold that will run on my machine running Win 98se ? I could always go to DOS but hesitate to order a program and then find it won't work on my computer, My workbench computer runs fine with 98se. Thanks Bill K7NOM _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list [email protected] https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
