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Microsoft Remains Firm On Ending VB6 Support

Posted by timothy on from the at-least-it's-not-willy-nilly-hippie-open-source-goof-offs dept.

An anonymous reader submits "CNet reports that Microsoft is remaining firm an ending support for VB6, despite a petition and many requests from its developer community. If only VB were a F/OSS project instead of a proprietary customers could be assured of continued support as long as there was demand. Are there any good F/OSS implementations of VB out there for customers to migrate to? One can only hope that enlightened groups like the Agility Alliance would warn about the risks of using such software that can be end-of-lifed even while they're in heavy use."

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  1. VB Alternatives by podperson · · Score: 5, Informative

    You might care to look at:

    RealBasic -- a VB-near clone with cross-platform development options that actually work, and which produces standalone .exes which don't require a magic set of DLLs to be installed correctly.

    Extreme Basic -- an open source VB-like development tool which looks very promising, being developed by the original developer of RealBasic.

  2. Re:Financial Services by TheCodeFoundry · · Score: 5, Informative

    Thanks for RTFA. Spreading FUD isn't limited to MS, I see.

    VBA and VBScript have nothing to do with Visual Basic 6. Not to mention, just because MS is no longer supporting VB 6, it isn't going to "cease to work" tomorrow.