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fafalone

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    Comment #42709282

    People have been writing Unicode supporting VB6 apps for decades now. There's a very popular project called VBCCR that provides reimplementations of all the VB6 UI controls with fu…

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    Comment #42709170

    Plenty VB6 apps use tons of APIs introduced well beyond 2001. I'm not too familiar with XYPlorer but it looks like it will support some more recent stuff if available. One of my ho…

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    Comment #38592998

    Just drop the parts about PtrSafe, LongPtr and LongLong, and it's the same.

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    Comment #35894048

    Well there's a small but significant community of hobbyists still using it for... we're enthusiastic about it to be subscribing already well it's still in beta to support it. Lots …

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    Comment #35892997

    I was a little later so my memories are things like dos32.bas, VB6 code to make pr0ggi3s for AOL. 12-14, making punters to boot people off, making l33t phaders for your chat room t…

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    Comment #35891781

    The most impressive 'pushed beyond it's limits' code I've seen is The trick's VB6 kernel mode driver. Yep, really. VB6. Kernel mode. You have to strip out the MSVBVM60.dll dependen…

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    Comment #35196274

    I'm a big fan of twinBASIC, more successor than clone. It's working on full backwards compatibility with VB6 (and very, very close to it, even many complex UserControls work), with…