VisualAge for Basic: Difference between revisions

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Description

IBM VisualAge for Basic delivers a suite of application development tools built around an implementation of the BASIC programming language for developers creating GUI clients and for DB2 application programmer who want to use BASIC to create GUI clients, DB2 stored procedures and user-defined functions. VA Basic is compatible with early Microsoft Visual Basic versions and was available in versions for both 32 bit OS/2 and MS Windows.

Version one is considered to be extremely buggy, this was fixed in subsequent bug fix releases alongside a host of small updates, however that upgrade was so big that it was never offered as a download by IBM but only as a free CD and few owners of VABasic were even aware of its existence, making it very rare on the second hand market. IBM withdrew VABasic from the market in 1998 but briefly offered the windows version as a free download in 2000, although some claimed that was by mistake.

Version

Version 1.0

Communication Control
- APPC with CM/2 1.1
- Async
- EHLLAPI with CM/2 1.1, PersComm AS/400
- NetBIOS with LAN Server/Req. V4.0
- TCP/IP with IBM TCP/IP 2.0/3.0

Version 1.1

Bug fix release - Update was available as a download in both client and server versions but appears to have disappeared off the net.

Version 1.2

Bug fix release - May have been released as a Beta only.

Version 1.5

Primarily bug fixes (This release may be a "version jack" and not add much in the way of changes over previous releases)

Links

Author

IBM

License

Commercial Software. Discontinued.

Publications

Software Announcement (Nov. 1996)

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 ==Description==
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 IBM '''VisualAge for Basic''' delivers a suite of application development tools built around an implementation of the BASIC programming language for developers creating GUI clients and for [[DB2]] application programmer who want to use BASIC to create GUI clients, DB2 stored procedures and user-defined functions. VA Basic is compatible with early [[Microsoft Visual Basic]] versions and was available in versions for both 32 bit OS/2 and MS Windows.
-Version one is considered to be extremely buggy, this was fixed in version 1.5 alongside a host of small updates, however that upgrade was so big that it was never offered as a download by IBM but only as a free CD and few owners of VABasic were even aware of its existence, making it very rare on the second hand market. IBM withdrew VABasic from the market in 1998 but briefly offered the windows version as a free download in 2000, although some claimed that was by mistake.
+Version one is considered to be extremely buggy, this was fixed in subsequent bug fix releases alongside a host of small updates, however that upgrade was so big that it was never offered as a download by IBM but only as a free CD and few owners of VABasic were even aware of its existence, making it very rare on the second hand market. IBM withdrew VABasic from the market in 1998 but briefly offered the windows version as a free download in 2000, although some claimed that was by mistake.
 == Version==
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 ====Version 1.5====
-* Primarily bug fixes
+* Primarily bug fixes (This release may be a "version jack" and not add much in the way of changes over previous releases)
 ==Links==
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 ==Author==
-IBM
+* [[IBM]]
 == License ==
-IBM Commercial Software. Discontinued.
+* Commercial Software. Discontinued.
 ==Related Articles==
+*
 ==Publications==
 * [http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=an&subtype=ca&htmlfid=897/ENUS296-420&appname=isource&language=enus Software Announcement] (Nov. 1996)
 [[Category:Tools]] [[Category: MS Windows Tools]]