Visual Basic 6 IDE recreated in C#

Re:Visual Basic 6 IDE recreated in C# by qingcharles on Thursday November 14, 2024 @06:51PM (#42142582)

Every version of Visual Studio since this has the same builder. I use this builder every day to build little apps for myself. It is practically 100% identical in the new version of Visual Studio 2022 that came out yesterday.

In fact, it's better now because it's easier to line things up and change their properties etc, but the interface is the same. It has literally not changed in 25 years.

Here, I booted VS2022 and made this app in under 60 seconds:

https://imgur.com/a/qHOCasJ

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Re:Visual Basic 6 IDE recreated in C# by pests on Thursday November 14, 2024 @08:44PM (#42143199)

The tools haven't changed, we have.

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Re:Visual Basic 6 IDE recreated in C# by wiseowise on Friday November 15, 2024 @03:11AM (#42144850)

That’s Windows only.

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Re:Visual Basic 6 IDE recreated in C# by jeroenhd on Friday November 15, 2024 @03:35AM (#42144963)

Qt has a very powerful GUI editor that also works quite well. Using QML and Python it's not hard to create a cross platform app. Distributing may be a pain though.

Then there's Gambas on Linux (though tbat requires WSL2 or Cygwin to work on Windows). Gambas does almost everything VB6 does using an obviously copued GUI and language.

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Re:Visual Basic 6 IDE recreated in C# by wiseowise on Friday November 15, 2024 @05:59AM (#42145753)

That’s not available on Web. Also relying on anything C++ is huge PITA (I’m aware of JS and QML).

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Re:Visual Basic 6 IDE recreated in C# by tonyedgecombe on Saturday November 16, 2024 @02:25AM (#42155038)

In general tools written for a single platform are better than their cross platform alternatives.

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Re:Visual Basic 6 IDE recreated in C# by shortrounddev2 on Friday November 15, 2024 @10:39AM (#42147863)

I thought vs2022 deprecated the visual builder for some ui frameworks

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