Bill Gates demonstrates Visual Basic (1991) [video]

Re:Bill Gates demonstrates Visual Basic (1991) [video] by heywire on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @03:29PM (#37933578)

Believe it or not, the legacy point of sale product I work on still uses a VB6 app for the cash office and reporting functions. A number of large grocery stores still use it in the US and abroad. I don’t work on that part of the application, but it still works just fine on Windows 11.

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Re:Bill Gates demonstrates Visual Basic (1991) [video] by rahkiin on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @04:57PM (#37934661)

Sadly development is no longer possible on Win11 and requires a Win7 VM

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Re:Bill Gates demonstrates Visual Basic (1991) [video] by heywire on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @09:25PM (#37937077)

I have not tried it myself, but apparently it can be done.

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Re:Bill Gates demonstrates Visual Basic (1991) [video] by yukkuri on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @10:04PM (#37937382)

Not true, I maintain the VB6 and VC++6 parts of our system on a Win 11 machine. Search a bit and you will find instructions for installing them successfully.

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Re:Bill Gates demonstrates Visual Basic (1991) [video] by badsectoracula on Thursday October 19, 2023 @02:40AM (#37939330)

I think the installer wont work and needs some workarounds to convince it to install but the program should work.

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Re:Bill Gates demonstrates Visual Basic (1991) [video] by flashback2199 on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @11:31PM (#37938012)

Somehow VB6 was really handy, I used it for a few projects in high school and I remember searching how to do things it was usually 2x or 3x the amount of code to do the same things in the newer version so I kept using it

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Re:Bill Gates demonstrates Visual Basic (1991) [video] by xnorswap on Thursday October 19, 2023 @03:15AM (#37939521)

One of my previous jobs was working on a vb6 POS system, we had to use windows XP VMs just so that we could run an old visual studio to keep developing it.

I left that company when it was clear their dreams of replacing it with a SaaS product wasn't headed in the right direction for me, but I sometimes wonder if that product is still going or whether they finally achieved their SaaS migration dream.

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Re:Bill Gates demonstrates Visual Basic (1991) [video] by heywire on Thursday October 19, 2023 @07:36AM (#37941441)

Very well could be the same company :)

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