This is part of series of posts categorized under VB10 vs VB6. “Option Base is not supported.” OK, time for a little history (extremely shortened). In the beginning, BASIC had 1 based arrays (May...

I still don’t have a name for the BASIC project I’m working on; however, would like to share some of the progress I’ve made. Parser (technically a scanner/ validating parser) layer is far enough a...

Before I make an announcement, I have to make it abundantly clear that I’m a huge fan of Microsoft Visual Basic and do not have any significant complaints on where Microsoft has travelled with the ...

This is part of series of posts categorized under VB10 vs VB6. “Dynamic arrays are not allowed within structures (UDTs)” I’m kind of scratching my head by this statement as I’m not entirely sure ...

This is part of series of posts categorized under VB10 vs VB6. “Arrays may not have a lower bound other than zero.” This, as it turns out, is absolutely true; however, with a twist. Although VB10...

This is part of series of posts categorized under VB10 vs VB6. “Private class variables are not private to the class instance.” This is another one of those “huh?” responses. However, I’ll go ahe...

This is part of series of posts categorized under VB10 vs VB6. “Use of ByVal/ByRef directly within API calls is not supported.” Huh? Declare Function SetEnvironmentVariable Lib "kernel32" Alias...

This is part of series of posts categorized under VB10 vs VB6. Declare Sub ExternalMethodName Lib "SomeLibrary" (ByVal someValue As Any) When working with Windows API’s, you use the DECLARE sta...

This is part of series of posts categorized under VB10 vs VB6. As it turns out, I still have a copy of Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Programmer’s Guide. This was an excellent resource for learning VB...

A couple of weeks ago there was a rumor that was flying around regarding VB6 being made open source. This was completely untrue; however, in the aftermath, the FUD machine has kicked back into gear...