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Re:RAD Basic – Compatible with Visual Basic 6 projects by electroly on Friday May 06, 2022 @10:35AM (#31285616)
Similarly I reached for VB6 any time I needed to consume a COM component. Stunningly easy compared to the absolute nightmare of consuming COM in C++. There really was no better way to do it than VB6.
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Re:RAD Basic – Compatible with Visual Basic 6 projects by ptx on Friday May 06, 2022 @04:09PM (#31289166)
Python with pywin32 [1] was also, and still is, a pretty good way to work with COM APIs. There is a book on it [2] from twenty years ago that is still surprisingly applicable.

[1] https://github.com/mhammond/pywin32/

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Python-Programming-Win32-Windows-Prog...

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