I was entering the miseries of seventh grade in the fall of 1980 when a friend dragged me into a dimly lit second-floor room. The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer, a ...

Long before you were picking up Python and JavaScript, in the predawn darkness of May 1, 1964, a modest but pivotal moment in computing history unfolded at Dartmouth College. Mathematicians John G.

Despite renewed developer hue and cry to do something with "classic" Visual Basic sparked by the recent 25th birthday celebration for the programming language, Microsoft is showing no signs of caving ...

An important point is being missed in all the banter about continuing VB6 vs. .NET. A lot of companies that have been developing in VB6, including n-tier ASP, are telling programmers that the move to ...

Christopher Pesola was so eager to see how well the upgrade wizard Microsoft Corp. supplied would migrate Visual Basic 6 applications to its new .Net development environment that he tried a beta ...

Exactly that, never break backwards compatibility. Microsoft replaced the VB6 programming language with a new language that totally broke compatibility. So even today the 16 year old VB6 is still more ...

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hi all i have this question on how to manipulate vb6 programming using combobox.... i'm quite new with vb so bear with me..<BR>here goes...<P>1. how to make the value we key in the combo box stays in ...

[Andrew] picked up a handful of these big STC 8051 chips for a song and dance. The problem he has with them is the clunky VB6 programming software that only wants to run on a Windows box. He buckled ...