Indeed. Visual Basic itself kept going until May 2001, when none other than Bill Gates declared it defunct in favor of the new .NET Framework. I even have the copy of the Visual Basic Programmer's Journal with his address. That said, as late as 2015, I know of at least one mission critical application written entirely in VB6, and I'm currently rebooting another such app written in VBA back in 1998. Whee!
(FWIW, a companion application that is even more critical was written using 5 COBOL modules. There was another proprietary program that acted as a pass-through and encoded the operations as SQL. I still have a copy of those modules, too). Of course, the .NET Framework is itself defunct and no longer officially updated. .NET Core--now called just .NET--is what MS recommends, and what I'm using. I prefer the modern architecture, but I miss just dragging components to make the UI. With .NET, you have to code it yourself in cshtml (called a Razor page, basically a web page with the option to embed C#). Sent with Proton Mail secure email. On Tuesday, January 21st, 2025 at 12:29 AM, Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > ---- Le lun., 20 janv. 2025 18:52:36 -0500 Steve Nickolas via Freedos-devel a > écrit ---- > > > On Mon, 20 Jan 2025, Liam Proven via Freedos-devel wrote: > > > > On Mon, 20 Jan 2025 at 22:57, Steve Nickolas via Freedos-devel > > > > freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 20 Jan 2025, Liam Proven via Freedos-devel wrote: > > > > > > I was wrong. One module is in Turbo Pascal but the rest is indeed VB > > > > > > DOS or MS Basic PDS 7.1. > > > > I must be missing several things here. > > > > What is "QBX"? Google does not help. Is this a nickname for the BASIC > > > > PDS? Is it some kind of BASIC-to-C compiler? > > > QuickBasic Extended. > > > "The last version of QuickBASIC was version 4.5 (1988), although development > of the Microsoft BASIC Professional Development System (PDS) continued until > its > last release of version 7.1 in October 1990 (at the same time, the QuickBASIC > packaging was sliently changed so that the disks use the same compression > used for > BASIC PDS 7.1.. The PDS version of the IDE was called QuickBASIC Extended > (QBX). The successor to QuickBASIC and PDS was Visual Basic for MS-DOS 1.0, > provided > in Standard and Professional versions. Later versions of Visual Basic did not > include DOS versions, as Microsoft concentrated on Windows applications." > according to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickBASIC > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
