Tag: VISUAL BASIC

By 'small' I obviously mean children, and not the supporting cast of Gulliver. Anyway, Microsoft Small Basic is here, ladies and gentlemen -- and with it, you now have the perfect teaching aid for beginners and children alike! Small Basic is so awesome that I'm actually struggling to find the right words, but I'll try... First, you have a simple and undaunting developer environment. You get a ...

As long as we're talking about word processors that have come a long way since we last talked about them: Mac users should sit up and take note: NeoOffice 2.1 arrives on March 27th. NeoOffice is a OS X port of OppenOffice.org by a group of developers who have thought from the beginning that the Main OO.o team was taking the wrong tack in offering X-11 support on the Mac. Early NeoOffice releases ...

The open source Mono Project, which is sponsored in part by Novell, Inc. announced today that it has developed a Visual Basic compiler which allows software written in Microsoft's most widely used application programming language to be compiled and run on any platform which Mono supports. Until this announcement, Visual Basic applications could only be run on the Microsoft Windows family of ...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/software/Dev_Chair_My_love_hate_relationship_with_Apple_development'; First, let me start with the full disclaimer: I develop Windows .NET application by day (and by night too for ecto) and use Mac OS X at home for everything else. Before getting my Mac Pro last December I used to work on ecto using a second Windows machine, but since then I have been using Visual ...

If you have applications written in Visual Basic 6 (VB6) it would force you to rewrite the entire thing to bring it into Visual Basic.net. Have no fear, an add-in tool from Microsoft is here. Microsoft's Interop Forms Toolkit 1.0 (free download) is an add-in for VB6 that will bring .net WinForms to your VB6 application. Microsoft's goal here was to help developers stuck between both worlds to ...