Extremely Powerful, very user friendly (Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Enterprise Edition)

Member Name: The Ice Man

Product:	Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Enterprise Edition
Date:	01/10/00 (167 review reads)
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Advantages: Easy to use and Learn and Very Powerful!

Disadvantages: Security is poor.

Strictly speaking I am only a Visual Basic beginner, but already I feel confident enough to take on a project possible.

I started VB about 6 monts ago with little programming background and within in that period have designed an operating system for control of a machine at work.

I found visual basic easy to get on to and would recommend any of the "Sams" "Teach Yourself VB in ....".

The system I wrote consisted of a user interface which provided inputs and outputs to various external systems such as barcode scanners and PLC's (a unit similar to a microprocessor.)

Vb easily lets you create profeesional forms etc. with the click of a button. This speeds up the design time and the amount coding required for a program.

Another source of info I found useful was a question and answer board vb-forums.net. If you post a query here you can expect a response within 24 hours. A must when you are banging you head against a brick wall.

If you are a first time programmer VB is most defeintely the easiest to learn but be careful it is a little "loose" and can lead you to bad programming habbits. (ie. the ability to loosely define variables.)

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