Re: Is Visual Basic for DOS d

 MT> I still use it quite a bit. In our PLC racks, we have little "386
 MT> Modules" which are actually just little 386 PC cards which can talk
 MT> across the backplane to the PLC (Programmable Logic Contoller --
 MT> automation, industrial) When I need a little user interface or
 MT> something, I use VB Dos. It would be silly to put up with the
 MT> overhead of Windows in these little machines AND VB Dos is FAST! With a
 MT> little creativity, you can build some pretty neat interfaces, too.

So VB DOS is great for fast developing... ok!

Some questions follows here! :)

 - What about memory management?? Just 640K?
 - What about bug reports??
 - What about custom controls or thirdy part software (shareware,
   freeware)?

Thank you.

MATRO

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but no, still in use,

Memory Management: Use BLINKER from BLINKER Inc, my .exe is > 800Kb, >
30 forms.

Third party: It used to be plenty, I don't know about support.

Bug reports: No use sending them to Microsoft.

Frode Hernes

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Re: Is visual basic for DOS d

 LL> Microsoft has announced that there will not be any further development,
 LL> and, I believe, has terminated technical support for the product.
 LL> There was only ever one release of VB DOS, 1.0, and there will not be
 LL> another.  Even so, new copies of VB DOS are still being sold at the

I wish to know some informations about VB DOS:

 - What is the latest release?
 - What about some bug?? Is VBDOS 'usable' at all ??
 - (.. is worth buying??)  :)

MATRO

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1.0 is still the latest release.
- There are bugs, but few and normally easy to circumvent
- It is by far the nicest environment for DOS programming, but that
does not say much, it is mor or less as VB2 for Windows without much
custom control support.
- Memory is a problem, the IDE can only load and run fairly small
programms, I use Blinker to load huge programs, but then without a nice
source level de{*filter*}.

It is certanly worth buying if you really need to do end-user friendly
MS-DOS programs.

Frode Hernes