Guy Barrette

Nice :) - Yes I read it ALL :) Ain't nothing getting me today.

I almost thought this was true. Good one... :)

if they did windows would not die a humble death in the future. it only still around because old vB6 software still runs on it.

I will be anxiously waiting!

...and on 5/19/2011 this became true: reddevnews.com/.../microsoft-to-open-source-vb6.aspx

Does anyone think that this would actually be a GOOD idea?

I do. Imagine VB6 getting a new life as the ONLY cross platform development language which works inside browsers (no more Javascript/Ajax), inside all phones (iOS, WP7, Android, BB, WebOS), on Linux, on Mac.

If people can port Silverlight i.e. Mono etc.. why not a lower level sub-set, nice and clean as Alan Cooper intended?

This is clearly not true because you said ADO, any self respecting VB6 programmer knows it's all about DAO, or possibly even RDO.

great idea, even thinking about it

Good one.Old programmers

Posted: Mar 31 2009, 08:15 PM  ??!!

Damn! I got all excited for a minute!

hehehe,

I'm still betting the C# people are mad!

James I couldn't have said it any better. The first version of Windows they release that does not support VB6 will be the death of Windows.

I am a developer today due to VB3 and above

I was thrilled until I read about the C Flat thing, then I knew it was just a joke...

An open sourced VB6 could have evolved with the community to 64-bit but without the .NET... just good old VBRUN.dll :-)

Quand pense-t-on que cela sera-t-il disponible ?

But...This ain't APRIL!!

Stupid A**

My first thought was: This doesn't make sense. The average VB programma won't understand the code and the others aren't interested in a flawed language like VB6!

You cannot fathom how many old school propgrammers there are who are still hanging around... They have something to smile about now...

Please remove this stupid article since it's not April 1, 2009 anymore - it is May 2011!

happened to run into this article one month after, still found it amusing ,haha!

I was thinking about all the possibilities that this  could bring to millions of lines that are hard to dye,

maybe one day,

C# is at last the next generation of VB6, same idea (productivity over performance, quick development, tricks, etc) without all the limitations.

I'm still using Visual Basic 5, as it can do all I need it to do.

Don't you mean VB7 as VB6 already exists?

It ll be a good one for fresh who knew VB6.

now VB6 developers ll have the high employment opportunity.

I remember the old vb6 vb.net battles and looking back I can see how much of a mountain people made over a mole hill.  In today's programming community you HAVE to be able to learn new languages all the time.

How does this benefit me?

Is it true?

others news sources said that this is not true!

Hey, all kidding aside, you could do a lot with VB6. The C++ guys would laugh at it, but VB6 dev cycles were about 5-fold shorter to produce essentially the same business app.

C.R.A.Z.Y.!

Man, you were even so naughtily crafty with this one as to introduce the idea of a C♭ PL.

You really got me on this one; especially since I'm reading it well after April 1st -- so I couldn't even suspect a prank!

Good one, though!  :-)

Wondered! It's good sign.

In present era of technology, I think Microsoft technology is not too impressive that's why PHP and other languages cover a big part of it market.

MS should have to do something impressive.

does this means that VB6.0 can now be made portable? Lame comment ahahaha...

Well it could be true... but the Cb story is sooo silly :D

a good decision by Microsoft............:)

Hahaha.. Microsoft will then produce g major and later open a music company..

I hope this is not a hoax (kiwani)

That is great Microsoft !

As much as I hate VB6, I do feel compelled to point out one minor detail...

On variants -- the C# dynamic type has most of the negative qualities of variants, including late binding failures.  On ActiveX controls, WinForms and WPF actually both support those, too -- since .NET 1.0.  On arrays starting at 1 or 0, System.Array actually lets you start your array whereever you want, and there are CLR languages that allow numbers other than 1 and 0.

Just pointing it out, because C# does all that without the need for a new C flat. :P