marknorton Posted March 22, 2008 Share #21 Posted March 22, 2008 Advertisement (gone after registration) Well, the VB6 IDE is now out of support but works well on XP where it will stay; the runtime environment is supported until the end of Vista so it will see me into early retirement. The main issue is that the third party add-ins you rely on - like graphing engines, comms add-ons are beginning to fall away. Purists turn their nose up at VB, but I've been able to write every one of those 800 kloc myself so it's been a productive environment and profitable thing to do. VB .NET is a big step backwards in terms of ease of debugging, much more like C++. The ability to single step, change a line of code and continue without rebuilding and having to get back to the same testing context is a huge productivity boost. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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harrisfoto Posted March 22, 2008 Share #22 Posted March 22, 2008 Why not see if Mandriva or another Linux application will install on the laptop. Then you can run a Windows emulator program, with Linux as the main os. Linux is even more open that Apple, for most applications. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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