Chrome browser for businesses

Re:Chrome browser for businesses by hiram112 on Thursday December 29, 2016 @07:38AM (#13276956)

I think it became harder to write true desktop apps once VB6 was killed off in favor of .Net with its higher learning curve.

As bad as a real language VB6 and it's GUI builder were, it did allow even amateurs to write a decent working crud app in minimal time.

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Re:Chrome browser for businesses by matwood on Thursday December 29, 2016 @08:17AM (#13277084)

I still think VB6 was the pinnacle for writing line of business CRUD apps. I've been told there are still some VB6 apps I wrote ~15 years ago running at a big enterprise I once worked for.

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Re:Chrome browser for businesses by alkonaut on Thursday December 29, 2016 @01:28PM (#13278995)

I find C# and WinForms at least as simple as vb6. They did make Lightswitch to really dumb down the one-off crud app development, but I'm not sure if that still lives.

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Re:Chrome browser for businesses by ComodoHacker on Thursday December 29, 2016 @08:48AM (#13277205)

Delphi was the pinnacle. But VB had definitely set the trend.

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