> If I dig deep into my own heart, really self-reflect, I find I simply don't possess whatever people like Bill Gates and Elon Musk do. Apartheid child slaves?
An affable personal relationship with Jeffery Epstein?
Visual Basic on the PC with Windows 3.1
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Re: Visual Basic on the PC with Windows 3.1
#12It's not dead. It's included with every copy of Desktop Excel and probably will be for 20 years. Press Alt-F11 and away you go (enable Developer tab first i guess?). Forms, SQL connectors, collections, alot of other stuff even XML parsing is in there somewhere if you dig around enough.
I mean it's like. not being developed anymore and not added to, and its a pain to have it deal with modern stuff like https but. yeah. its only mostly dead.
Re: Visual Basic on the PC with Windows 3.1
#13> AdGuard DNS blocked access to stonetools.ghost.io because it’s in our database of phishing and malicious domains
Author here. Let me first note that the site is 100% free, and requires no account to read anything. I only use the built-in Ghost blogging subscription for those who want it delivered to their email, but it is absolutely not necessary. That's the full and total extent of anything email related with the site. I have many readers who subscribe to the RSS feed, which is free and open and requires no email whatsoever. I…
i just took that pesky 's' out of https and it let me click thru.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
Author here. Let me first note that the site is 100% free, and requires no account to read anything. I only use the built-in Ghost blogging subscription for those who want it delivered to their email, but it is absolutely not necessary. That's the full and total extent of anything email related with the site. I have many readers who subscribe to the RSS feed, which is free and open and requires no email whatsoever. I…
i just took that pesky 's' out of https and it let me click thru.
Thank you, that's great to know!
(I also found the method for reporting false positives to AdGuard, and hopefully that will get cleared up on their end one day.)
Re: Visual Basic on the PC with Windows 3.1
#15> If I dig deep into my own heart, really self-reflect, I find I simply don't possess whatever people like Bill Gates and Elon Musk do. Apartheid child slaves?
An affable personal relationship with Jeffery Epstein?
Also like that, yes. (I did include an Epstein-related link in the post)
Re: Visual Basic on the PC with Windows 3.1
#16It's not dead. It's included with every copy of Desktop Excel and probably will be for 20 years. Press Alt-F11 and away you go (enable Developer tab first i guess?). Forms, SQL connectors, collections, alot of other stuff even XML parsing is in there somewhere if you dig around enough. I mean it's like. not being developed anymore and not added to, and its a pain to have it deal with modern stuff like https but. yeah…
That would be Visual Basic for Applications, not the full-featured Visual Basic, if I'm not mistaken. I don't think it's possible to save out standalone executables that can run on machines that don't have Excel (or perhaps other Office apps), since its purpose is for Office automation scripting.
Re: Visual Basic on the PC with Windows 3.1
#17It's not dead. It's included with every copy of Desktop Excel and probably will be for 20 years. Press Alt-F11 and away you go (enable Developer tab first i guess?). Forms, SQL connectors, collections, alot of other stuff even XML parsing is in there somewhere if you dig around enough. I mean it's like. not being developed anymore and not added to, and its a pain to have it deal with modern stuff like https but. yeah…
For a bit of the background on that development see:
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-rev...
Re: Visual Basic on the PC with Windows 3.1
#18It's not dead. It's included with every copy of Desktop Excel and probably will be for 20 years. Press Alt-F11 and away you go (enable Developer tab first i guess?). Forms, SQL connectors, collections, alot of other stuff even XML parsing is in there somewhere if you dig around enough. I mean it's like. not being developed anymore and not added to, and its a pain to have it deal with modern stuff like https but. yeah…
That would be Visual Basic for Applications, not the full-featured Visual Basic, if I'm not mistaken. I don't think it's possible to save out standalone executables that can run on machines that don't have Excel (or perhaps other Office apps), since its purpose is for Office automation scripting.
You are correct. But, that's about the only difference between VBA and VB. I was a VB developer for 10 years before I wrote my first VBA application (in Excel), and I was surprised when everything I tried to do in VBA just worked(TM).
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#19> If I dig deep into my own heart, really self-reflect, I find I simply don't possess whatever people like Bill Gates and Elon Musk do. Apartheid child slaves?
For you, an inability to contribute anything worthwhile to society?
Re: Visual Basic on the PC with Windows 3.1
#20Does anyone remember ToolBook? I spend a couple of years from the mid to late 90s working with this daily, crossing from Windows 3.11 into Windows 95/98. It's a bit Visual Basic-esque, as a matter of fact, Paul Allen was a founder of the company that produced it.