I think (and this is just a guess), but when the asker references "free VB", they may be talking about the Express version.
Someone said in here that you can get a free compiler for any language, but only until MS released the "express" versions, you weren't able to get any free compiler from Microsoft (some might say that was a good thing :-) On Nov 5, 8:40 am, Processor Devil <[email protected]> wrote: > vim, my favorite one :) > well, nowadays you can get a free compiler for every language in this world > (including Cobol - blah) > Big question is what was the meaning of that "free VB" then.... > > 2009/11/5 B☼gus Excepti☼n <[email protected]> > > > > > > > On Nov 5, 10:25 am, Arsalan Tamiz <[email protected]> wrote: > > > @Processor what about the last question? > > > Which VB? > > > To be technical about the answer (what else did you expect?), I think > > you can get a free compiler for VB.NET and other .NET languages that > > work on the command line, and as stated earlier you can use any number > > of IDEs to write your code in, or vi/vim/notepad++/write/... > > > pat > > :)
