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ive been asking a lot of questions about pascal, html, qbasic, php, etc. oh well. anyway, i was looking at some games made with visual basic and they look pretty good. better than qbasic games atleast. is visual basic more advanced then qbasic? like, does it have more features. can you compile it into a .exe file? would it be easier to learn? would it be quicker to learn?

im still deciding which language to learn. now im leaning towards visual basic. i just wanted some info on it first.

C++ is the most powerful lang, and that's what I choose.

I do remeber a bit if VB, and VB makes QB seem like, well, :-X (not a curse).

VB is for Win32 and can make .exe's, and the .exe's need dlls distributed to run the prog.

Hope that helps, and check the hahaha post I made.

also, VB (I think ) is more easy than QB. But VB needs more functions to type in, but buttons to click do most of that for you.

thanks tom. does anyone know where i can download it? (after surfing the web for a few minutes, i cant find a download for it, so im guessing you have to buy it.) if you have to buy it, could some one send me it? i wanna see what its like before i would buy it.

there is this prog called envelop, used to be a vb compediter.

you can't get VB free online, but when I was searching for VB free, I found Envelop. here's the link:
http://pages.cthome.net/xx/e.htm
envelop is good for learning and seeing what the language is like, also comes with a good tutorial.

also on the envelop site it says:
A non-compiling interpreting version of Microsoft Visual Basic 6 (Working Model) is available in bookstores with a CD for $30.00 , 450 pages
SAMS teach yourself VB6 in 24 hours
This is what I recommend to you.

you can test VB with that too...

thank you! ;D

You can make exe's from QBasic programs too...
VB3 is free, but it's not worth downloading.
I started of with QBasic (there was no VB back than I think) and later moved on to VB, but I never enjoyed it like I enjoyed QB! Don't know why though...
Last year we had to make Mastermind in VB for school, I'll send it to you (if I can find it ::) )...

Joey,it is called Kazaa...and Cable Broad Band...

SMG240

oops. :-[ forgot all about that. i usually use kazaa for music, full version games (i do this rarely), and vids. ;D

ill look. thanks smg and jelle.

jelle what is mastermind btw?

smg, can you just send me it?

[email protected]

if it is over 2 meg, then dont. let me know if it is over though. i have a backup plan.

Sure Joey here, let me attach all 200megs to this board...hold on a sec

SMG240

:-[ didnt know it was THAT big. ill look on kazaa i guess.

Good idea!

SMG240 ;D