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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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