#visual-basic — Public Fediverse posts

@stonetoolsblog Your #AppleWorks and #Hypercard posts, and to a lesser extent the #dBase and #VisualBasic posts, are giving me a bit of a brainwave... could it be that the recipe for a retro sleeper hit is to glue just a bit of automation onto a flat file #database?

Earlier I wrote about owners of the HP #200LX performing daring feats of automation using only the machine's ROM applications (word processor, spreadsheet, database) and a system macro recorder. Their workflows strongly remind me of the workflow you devised for laying out your text adventure game in AppleWorks. Then, HyperCard took things a step further by adding a scripting language and graphics. All these tools feel like members of the same category, with the #HP200LX perhaps the least capable (but most approachable), and HyperCard the most capable (but requiring the most programming to unlock its power).

VB departs from the category by neglecting to ship a built-in database, as you mentioned. dBase departs from the category (subjectively) by being CLI-focused and stodgy enough that it doesn't provide the feeling of sculpting a living medium with one's hands.

I'm obsessed with the category, whatever name one might choose to attach to it. (RAD? Too code-focused. Nocode? Has become its own thing bearing little resemblance to the progenitors.) Regardless, flat-file databases seem to be a sweet spot, simple enough to be readily grasped regardless of technical background but powerful enough to get work done.

Okay, now I'm stuck again. HALP! (and please be nice, I'm not a developer and not much of a coder) Language is VB. Error is "Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection."

Relevant section screenshot below. I strongly suspect the problem is with the highlighted area based on where the code was stuck previously, but I'm not 100% positive.

#visualbasic

#VisualBasic was so great

RE: https://mastodon.social/@stonetoolsblog/116816354823220874

I've debated, in the bathroom mirror with myself, if "development tools" is a category I should explore. I did #HyperCard, so it seems only fair to do #VisualBasic. The time investment for these investigations is signifcant, so I can't do them frequently, but I really shouldn't overlook the tools that built the tools we used.

Pluralistic: AI and amateurism (15 Jun 2026)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/15/vernacular/

Le visual basic 7 qui n'existe pas: https://edi.developpez.com/actu/333282/Visual-Basic-7-n-a-jamais-existe-RAD-Basic-sort-sa-troisieme-version-alpha-et-se-rapproche-un-peu-plus-du-retour-de-Visual-Basic-6/ #visualbasic

I'm writing a history of Visual Basic, Chapter 1 is up

https://evilgeniuslabs.ca/blog/visual-basic-history-chapter-1-launch

#HackerNews #VisualBasic #History #Chapter1 #Programming #History #TechBlog

As soon as I left high school, I needed a small IT job, and that's what I got!

Using VB.net and Access (which I had learned at school), I had to create a management system for the dam's water irrigation contracts.

Twelve years later, it is still in use and working great: simple with a single task!

That's it! A boring story, I admit, but it's really nice to have something that ‘works’.

#vb #visualbasic #vbnet

"the history and legacy of visual basic" (2023)
https://retool.com/visual-basic

#visualbasic #programming #history

Le visual basic 7 qui n'existe pas: https://edi.developpez.com/actu/333282/Visual-Basic-7-n-a-jamais-existe-RAD-Basic-sort-sa-troisieme-version-alpha-et-se-rapproche-un-peu-plus-du-retour-de-Visual-Basic-6/ #visualbasic

via @dotnet : .NET 11 Preview 1 is now available!

https://ift.tt/lEV5RZu
#NET11Preview1 #DotNet11 #DotNet #NET11 #CSharp #ASP.NETCore #Blazor #NETMAUI #FSharp #VisualBasic #EntityFrameworkCore #EFCore #OpenAPI #SignalR #WebAssembly #RISCV #S390x #HotReload #Runt…

anyone remember Gambas? the "Visual Basic" on Linux?

https://gambaswiki.org/website/en/main.html

#visualbasic #gambas #programming #programminglanguages #linux #gtk

For so many years I’ve been wondering but never really knew what happened to Borland and Delphi.

I hated Pascal due to how discouraging our lyceum teacher was and how ancient TP felt in the early 2000s. Plus I learned QBasic at school and then logically moved on to Visual Basic 6.

Though I remember that indeed Delphi was better than VB in many ways, including not needing to provide a runtime.

https://youtu.be/Ubie5xxfdzE?si=lYYWW6imdzDys_ws

#delphi #programming #coding #history #visualbasic #microsoft #borland

Well that was more than I expected to have to learn about Excel VB macros!

#subpost #visualbasic #excel

I don't have a lot of my old Visual Basic 5.0 games' code but I have some... :T
Was just a teenager experimenting with WinSock.

#VisualBasic

FYI: QBasic Nostalgia: Remembering the 90s Programming Era #shorts: Remember QBasic? It came bundled with Windows, making coding accessible. But Microsoft stopped evolving Visual Basic, leaving simple coding in the past. Now, DOSBox emulators are needed to relive those early programming days. #QBasic #Windows #VisualBasic #DOSBox #CodingHistory https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BL_APGGJA9g

FYI: QBasic Nostalgia: Remembering the 90s Programming Era #shorts: Remember QBasic? It came bundled with Windows, making coding accessible. But Microsoft stopped evolving Visual Basic, leaving simple coding in the past. Now, DOSBox emulators are needed to relive those early programming days. #QBasic #Windows #VisualBasic #DOSBox #CodingHistory https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BL_APGGJA9g

Ditched MS for #libreoffice on my home pc 🥳 Can anyone tell me if there’s an equivalent to #VisualBasic with it? Not for anything major, making a cute menstrual tracker for my teenage daughter and want to create a little dashboard using automations I’d usually pop in vb.

Le visual basic 7 qui n'existe pas: https://edi.developpez.com/actu/333282/Visual-Basic-7-n-a-jamais-existe-RAD-Basic-sort-sa-troisieme-version-alpha-et-se-rapproche-un-peu-plus-du-retour-de-Visual-Basic-6/ #visualbasic

Wow, after installing #solaris 2.5.1 on my #sun ultra 10, I can really see why people loved these old #Unix workstations.

It's so easy to develop some software on this!

#retrocomputing #visualbasic

@giacomo @jana @m3tti @mtorchiano OK. Point taken.

I learned programming starting from bulbs, batteries, switches... and transistor, then logic gates then BASIC. You know, that kind stuck with we and I did my best to steer clear from crappy tech w/o future. I ignored #Perl in favour of #Pythom, I did my part of #VisualBasic, however. I developed PTSD from #JavaScript in early '00s, steer clear since. #PHP become synonym of junk, avoided as well.

Embedded Systems are my preferred environment.

ICYMI: QBasic Nostalgia: Remembering the 90s Programming Era #shorts: Remember QBasic? It came bundled with Windows, making coding accessible. But Microsoft stopped evolving Visual Basic, leaving simple coding in the past. Now, DOSBox emulators are needed to relive those early programming days. #QBasic #Windows #VisualBasic #DOSBox #CodingHistory https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BL_APGGJA9g

ICYMI: QBasic Nostalgia: Remembering the 90s Programming Era #shorts: Remember QBasic? It came bundled with Windows, making coding accessible. But Microsoft stopped evolving Visual Basic, leaving simple coding in the past. Now, DOSBox emulators are needed to relive those early programming days. #QBasic #Windows #VisualBasic #DOSBox #CodingHistory https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BL_APGGJA9g

QBasic Nostalgia: Remembering the 90s Programming Era #shorts: Remember QBasic? It came bundled with Windows, making coding accessible. But Microsoft stopped evolving Visual Basic, leaving simple coding in the past. Now, DOSBox emulators are needed to relive those early programming days. #QBasic #Windows #VisualBasic #DOSBox #CodingHistory https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BL_APGGJA9g