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- From: galenr@hpgrla.gr.hp.com (Galen Raben)
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 16:49:51 GMT
- Subject: Re: Visual Basic info wanted
- Message-ID: <33680011@hpgrla.gr.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Greeley, CO
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- Newsgroups: alt.lang.basic
- References: <1992Nov16.144643.4902@sctc.com>
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- In alt.lang.basic, hutch@bellman.lanl.gov (John Hutchinson) writes:
-
- >In article 4902@sctc.com, bright@sctc.com (David A. Bright) writes:
- >>I would like information on Visual Basic (the Windows variety). Can anyone
- >>give me pointers to books, magazine articles, or ftp-able documents that
- >>describe VB? [ ... stuff deleted ... ]
- >>a lot of the tedium for you. For those of you bemoaning the constant BASIC
- >>bashing, I'll admit to programming in C at work; however, I am not averse to
- >>using "off-beat" languages (I've been known to dabble in ICON, Forth, and
- >>other lesser-known languages).
-
- VB an off-beat language? No wonder we don't have our own group yet! :-) :-)
-
- >David, VB has been reviewed in a number of computer magazines this past year,
- >however just this last month, two major magazines reviewed the three top
- >selling Windows BASIC packages... VB, The Realizer, and GFA BASIC. Check out
- >the Nov 92 issues of Computer Language and Byte. Both reviewers tended to
- >give the nod to VB over the other two, due in large part to its ease of use
- >and complete, relatively seamless package. No one has reviewed VB 2.0 yet
- >as it is not yet released (I think).
-
- Good suggestions... BasicPro magazine just did a very good article on VB 2.0.
- From the article (and my upgrade literature) MS seems to have fixed some
- of my "complaints" about VB 1.0. They've improved the debugger, easier
- properties window, added 256 color support (?) and mdi child support!
- They still compile p-code rather than a true exe yet so the #@!@##! runtime
- dll is still there, at least they've made it faster (maybe by VB 3.0???).
-
- I can't tell you much more about VB2.0 yet though as I'm awaiting my upgrade...
- As for VB 1.0 I usually use it rather than TPW or C. I dunno if that tells
- you anything... :-) Once you get out of the old BASIC programming mindset
- (straight-line execution) and into the Windows event-oriented way of doing
- things VB becomes an exceptionally easy to program for Windows!
-
- - Galen -
- galenr@hpgrla.gr.hp.com
-