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Re: Windows 8 Apps with Visual Basic

From	"Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.basic.visual.misc
Subject	Re: Windows 8 Apps with Visual Basic
Date	2014-03-23 12:19 -0400
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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  With VB4 (32-bit?) you can produce Windows
software but I assume you need to ship the runtime
on most target systems.
  You can't write Metro apps with VB 4/5/6. 32-bit
software will run on all Windows systems, but with
some limitations on 64-bit systems. (It's awkward,
at best, to write Shell extensions, for instance.)

  You might want to look into .Net. I know you
can use it for Metro apps, though I don't know
if it's the best tool for that. You'll probably want
to check the MS forums to see what people are
using. One of these should have Metro groups:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/categories/
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/categories/


"Rudolf Harras" <rudi007@temporaryforwarding.com> wrote in message 
news:lgmt6d$m04$1@dont-email.me...
| Mayayana schrieb:
| >   A few distinctions: This is a VB group, mainly
| > for VB5/6. VB is for writing compiled Windows
| > software. It's not the same thing as VB.Net
| > If you're using .Net you can try the web forums
| > or this group:
|
| Ok, but it might be the right group for my purpose anyway, since I am
| used to Visual Basic 4. Didn't use .Net yet.
|
| So maybe you know what I could do with Visual Basic 4 knowledge
| nowadays. Is .Net similar? Does this include Visual Basic?
| I'm confused now where to start, since there are so many different names
| and products.
|
| Actually there were three main features for using VB and I didn't find
| them many other programming language:
| - Just draw the buttons and text fields. No need to care about
| complicated graphics and button press events
| - Pressing F5 and see how my programm will run
| - stopping it and using the direct window for checking variables etc.
|
| If I could develop some Metro app with something that works similar,
| that would be great.

Thread

Windows 8 Apps with Visual Basic Rudolf Harras <rudi007@temporaryforwarding.com> - 2014-03-23 10:55 +0100
  Re: Windows 8 Apps with Visual Basic "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2014-03-23 09:23 -0400
    Re: Windows 8 Apps with Visual Basic Rudolf Harras <rudi007@temporaryforwarding.com> - 2014-03-23 16:04 +0100
      Re: Windows 8 Apps with Visual Basic "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2014-03-23 12:19 -0400
    Re: Windows 8 Apps with Visual Basic Tom Shelton <tom_shelton@comcast.invalid> - 2014-03-24 13:02 -0600
      Re: Windows 8 Apps with Visual Basic "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2014-03-24 19:25 -0400
        Re: Windows 8 Apps with Visual Basic Tom Shelton <tom_shelton@comcast.invalid> - 2014-03-24 20:37 -0600
      Re: Windows 8 Apps with Visual Basic "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2014-03-25 10:01 -0400
        Re: Windows 8 Apps with Visual Basic Tom Shelton <tom_shelton@comcast.invalid> - 2014-03-25 17:12 -0600
          Re: Windows 8 Apps with Visual Basic Schmidt <ng@vbRichClient.com> - 2014-03-31 01:09 +0200
      Re: Windows 8 Apps with Visual Basic Rudolf Harras <rudi007@temporaryforwarding.com> - 2014-03-25 23:12 +0100
        Re: Windows 8 Apps with Visual Basic Tom Shelton <tom_shelton@comcast.invalid> - 2014-03-25 17:19 -0600
          Re: Windows 8 Apps with Visual Basic Rudolf Harras <rudi007@temporaryforwarding.com> - 2014-03-26 01:28 +0100
            Re: Windows 8 Apps with Visual Basic Tom Shelton <tom_shelton@comcast.invalid> - 2014-03-25 20:55 -0600
              Re: Windows 8 Apps with Visual Basic Rudolf Harras <rudi007@temporaryforwarding.com> - 2014-03-26 11:06 +0100
                Re: Windows 8 Apps with Visual Basic "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2014-03-26 08:51 -0400
                Re: Windows 8 Apps with Visual Basic Rudolf Harras <rudi007@temporaryforwarding.com> - 2014-04-13 02:11 +0200
                Re: Windows 8 Apps with Visual Basic "Farnsworth" <nospam@nospam.com> - 2014-04-12 23:52 -0400
                Re: Windows 8 Apps with Visual Basic Deanna Earley <dee.earley@icode.co.uk> - 2014-04-14 09:01 +0100
                Re: Windows 8 Apps with Visual Basic "Farnsworth" <nospam@nospam.com> - 2014-04-15 04:56 -0400
                Re: Windows 8 Apps with Visual Basic Deanna Earley <dee.earley@icode.co.uk> - 2014-04-15 10:10 +0100
                Re: Windows 8 Apps with Visual Basic Rudolf Harras <rudi007@temporaryforwarding.com> - 2014-04-30 00:43 +0200
                Re: Windows 8 Apps with Visual Basic Rudolf Harras <rudi007@temporaryforwarding.com> - 2014-04-30 00:41 +0200
                Re: Windows 8 Apps with Visual Basic Rudolf Harras <rudi007@temporaryforwarding.com> - 2014-04-30 00:47 +0200

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