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Microsoft's '''Visual Basic''' was initially developed for OS/2 and combined the in-house developed language called "Embedded Basic", with a small database engine previously known as "Omega" and a bought in forms generator that was called "Ruby" into a variation of [[Basic]] better suited for development of GUI programs than what had previously been available. Embedded Basic was a smaller variation of the [[QuickBasic]] language that MS had offered to OEM's in the latter half of the 80's but with little or no sales. | Microsoft's '''Visual Basic''' was initially developed for OS/2 and combined the in-house developed language called "Embedded Basic", with a small database engine previously known as "Omega" and a bought in forms generator that was called "Ruby" into a variation of [[Basic]] better suited for development of GUI programs than what had previously been available. Embedded Basic was a smaller variation of the [[QuickBasic]] language that MS had offered to OEM's in the latter half of the 80's but with little or no sales. | ||
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Microsoft has discontinued the development of Visual Basic altogether but has a development system available for current versions of Windows that has some similarities with VB called "Visual Basic for .NET", although the similarities are not as great as the name implies. | Microsoft has discontinued the development of Visual Basic altogether but has a development system available for current versions of Windows that has some similarities with VB called "Visual Basic for .NET", although the similarities are not as great as the name implies. | ||
====Text & programmers editors with Visual Basic support==== | |||
== | * [[Boxer]] - Visual Basic syntax highlighting support built in - Commercial - DOS and OS/2 versions discontinued, Win32 version still sold. | ||
== Versions== | |||
* Version 1 Beta - Last version that shipped as a native OS/2 program | * Version 1 Beta - Last version that shipped as a native OS/2 program | ||
* Version 1 for DOS - The only version that could generate DOS executables | * Version 1 for DOS - The only version that could generate DOS executables | ||
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Microsoft Commercial Software. Discontinued. | Microsoft Commercial Software. Discontinued. | ||
[[Category:Tools]] [[Category:DOS Tools]] [[Category: MS Windows Tools]][[Category:Basic]] | |||
[[Category:Tools]] [[Category:DOS Tools]] [[Category: MS Windows Tools]] | |||
Revision as of 09:39, 14 April 2015
Microsoft's Visual Basic was initially developed for OS/2 and combined the in-house developed language called "Embedded Basic", with a small database engine previously known as "Omega" and a bought in forms generator that was called "Ruby" into a variation of Basic better suited for development of GUI programs than what had previously been available. Embedded Basic was a smaller variation of the QuickBasic language that MS had offered to OEM's in the latter half of the 80's but with little or no sales.
MS shipped alpha and beta versions of Visual Basic for OS/2 on their TechNet CD ROM's including a late version that was production ready, but the split of Microsoft and IBM over the future of OS/2 made them decide not to ship the OS/2 product even though it was more mature than the Windows product they eventually released, purely to sabotage the chances of IBM's OS/2. But even then the initial version of VB for Windows contained references to OS/2 and Presentation Manager that the manual writers had forgot to take out of the text and the visual style was more Presentation Manager than Windows Shell.
Microsoft has discontinued the development of Visual Basic altogether but has a development system available for current versions of Windows that has some similarities with VB called "Visual Basic for .NET", although the similarities are not as great as the name implies.
Text & programmers editors with Visual Basic support
- Boxer - Visual Basic syntax highlighting support built in - Commercial - DOS and OS/2 versions discontinued, Win32 version still sold.
Versions
- Version 1 Beta - Last version that shipped as a native OS/2 program
- Version 1 for DOS - The only version that could generate DOS executables
- Version 4 - The first version that could generate 32bit code and the last that could be used to create 16 bit Windows executables that run under WinOS/2.
Links
Author
- Microsoft
- Tripod (Orignal developer)
License
Microsoft Commercial Software. Discontinued.