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Re:RAD Basic – Compatible with Visual Basic 6 projects by pjmlp on Friday May 06, 2022 @07:52AM (#31284053)
They improved it later with some VB6 compatibility packs, but yes, that should have been there from the beginning.

Or as I mention on another thread, .NET should have been what was later WinRT, by improving COM tooling and that was it, but now we are 20 years too late to fix that.

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Re:RAD Basic – Compatible with Visual Basic 6 projects by jenscow on Friday May 06, 2022 @08:57AM (#31284577)
You're right, WinRT should have been much sooner.

However, there wouldn't have been much hope for a cross-platform .NET if it were COM based... and cross-platform is one of the things keeping .NET relevant - Personally, I was (reluctantly) about to ditch .net until that.

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Re:RAD Basic – Compatible with Visual Basic 6 projects by pjmlp on Friday May 06, 2022 @09:30AM (#31284852)
The cross-platform story is still half hearted, as many tools are VS only, and who knows if they ever going to land on VSCode or VS4 Mac.

Also see MAUI versus Swing/Qt, one needs to go for Uno/Avalonia instead.

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Re:RAD Basic – Compatible with Visual Basic 6 projects by 7thaccount on Friday May 06, 2022 @08:04AM (#31284162)
Can you be more specific on the 2nd paragraph for someone ignorant like myself?
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Re:RAD Basic – Compatible with Visual Basic 6 projects by pjmlp on Friday May 06, 2022 @08:16AM (#31284255)
You can start here for a complete picture,

https://arstechnica.com/features/2012/10/windows-8-and-winrt...

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