Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Enterprise Edition Reviews

As I am currently using this program a lot due to the fact I am doing an I.T course I thought it would be a good idea to give a review on it. Basically this program enables you to program prety much anything that involves visual basic code. Although you do have to be able to learn the code the program combines visual programming as ...  Read the complete review

like the title of my opinion says its so great theres nothing else well i believe its true for many reasons. i and my friend are very good programmers but we took two very different routes to get the programming software that we needed to show off our skills, well cutting a long story short my mate baught every bit of programming software ...  Read the complete review

Visual Basic is a very powerful program with various tools which can be used in such a manner that you can nearly accomplish everything. It has an easy to use interface where the user merely draws on their desired control (a control is like an object eg. button) This can be useful because it just shows that it is very user friendly. ...  Read the complete review

Introduction From the early days of computers a simple computer language existed that allowed novices to program computers. This language was called BASIC – or Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Set. It was a fairly simple language that bought computer programming to the masses; early computers (such as the ZX80, ZX81, BBC ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

As someone who has programmed for a number of years this is the product I would recommend for a number of reasons. This is the best tool for beginning programming and you can certainly develop decent programs quickly . With the introduction of Direct X 7 finally you could develop your own games and the gap between VB and other languages is ...  Read the complete review

Visual Basic is taking over the Microsoft world, of that there is little doubt. It is in Internet Explorer, Outlook, Excel, Access. If a package has "Where do you want to go today" written on it somewhere, chances are it contains Visual Basic in it somewhere. But is it any good ? If you are a novice programmer wanting ...  Read the complete review

Visual Basic is the first programming tool that I used when I became a trainee in the I.T. Industry. It is a staple in most application modelling nowadays and is a useful tool to practice with if you want to get into the business of programming. Its no strictly a core language like Perl,Java or C++ but its a great introductory level to srat with. ...  Read the complete review

I have been using VB since Version 3 and have seen the product grow significantly - whereas one would have implemented only desktop applications using VB, you can now develop for the enterprise with VB6, including web development. The significance of VB is that it is very easy to pick up and write applications - however, a good design ...  Read the complete review

Visual Basic v6.0 first appears to do everything you want it to do. However some things are made more complex. If, for example, a routine to allow a window to remain always on top is missing, you have to access a DLL, which is relativly simple. But if no DLL can be found that contains a routine to do what you do, you have to resort to ...  Read the complete review

With project deadlines getting shorter and shorter, developers need tools that can enable them to deliver products within deadlines that a few years ago would have seemed impossible. I have worked with Visual Basic since version 3 and in my opinion no other language has managed to catch up with the features of Visual Basic. The new ...  Read the complete review

I moved from Delphi development a while back to doing VB for work. Enterprise was the version I was handed and, quite daunted, I took up the challenge of writing a few new apps and modifying older ones. The language itself is simplicity itself to elarn. It'll come with practise, trust me. But what amazed me was the way that ...  Read the complete review

This is microsofts gift to all gui designers. The art of gui development is now a case of selecting drag and drop components and a brief soray into the world of computer programming. A novice can quickly produce a tangible result. in addition to this it obviously allows the more experienced to manipulate arrays, to access databases and produce ...  Read the complete review

Having done programming in C and C++ for awhile, I decided to try Visual Basic for a change. I picked up a book, and got myself a copy of Visual Basic 6.0. To my delight, I found programming in Visual Basic real easy by comparison. The Visual Basic 6.0 development environment and programmer tools contribute significantly to this. User ...  Read the complete review

I have just developed a fairly simple application in VB6 that interfaces with Outlook 98 and a UNIX system and found it very easy - this being my first dabblings with "visual" development. The editor is useful - especially the function help, and the debugging facilities are a pleasure (compared to my normal development language - BCPL!). ...  Read the complete review

I have found this program very easy to use, the graphics side, ie, buttons and boxes, very simple to use, very little programming knowledge required for use, compared to programming and old 8 bit computer 15 years ago, with at least 1 book and few hours, it is simple, then with the option to make your own EXE when you have finished, so you can ...  Read the complete review