> "Bring the VBE into this century!" This actually gave me goosebumps... Are there many modern use-cases for Visual Basic? All I can think of is horrible scripting code for Excel, Word and AutoCAD
Rubberduck – COM add-in that enables IDE features in the Visual Basic Editor
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Re: Rubberduck – COM add-in that enables IDE features in the Visual Basic Editor
#22I had to actually google "Visual Basic Editor" to find out why it was a thing people are still using in this century, and found out that it's the editor for VBA macros in MS-Office applications. So "Visual Basic Editor" is a bit of a misnomer...
It's a bit reductive to call it "the editor for VBA macros", it's like calling Visual Studio a "template editor" because you get a set of template files when you create a new project. The purpose of VBE is to build applications, it's an IDE. Add-ins like Rubberduck are actually very useful in extending the capabilities of VBE and there are still millions of people using VBA every day to solve business problems.
Re: Rubberduck – COM add-in that enables IDE features in the Visual Basic Editor
#23I use VB6 all the time. Need to quickly get some custom serial port thingy written? VB6. Want to make a quick window that hosts 4 embedded VLC COM instances to watch RTSP camera streams? VB6. My craziest use case out in the field was: Wall mounting a spare mouse and soldering two wires to the left button inside, running a wire back to the office with the computer playing pandora and then writing a quick app to turn d…