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schism said:
Is tehre afreeware editor.compiler for visual Basic?
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There was a project once apon a time called Envelop Basic, it was very VB
like. It is now freeware, although no longer supported, and available at
http://pages.cthome.net/xx/e.htm

Also look into XBasic, also a VB like compiler / IDE, but will require some
re-training if you already know VB. It's not quite as elegant as VB but very
powerful. This is an active project with regular fixes / improvements.
http://pages.cthome.net/xx/e.htm

RapidQ is also VB like but has been abandoned. Works very well though
http://www.basicguru.com/rapidq/

These are probably the closest to VB, all work very well and have my
recommendation.
HK
 
schism said:
Is tehre afreeware editor.compiler for visual Basic?
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There was once a Visual Basic "Control Creation Edition" available from
Microsoft free. It would let you write Active-X controls I think that it was
VB 5.0.

Also, the .net SDK is availiable from Microsoft for free. It includes the
command line VB.net compiler(also C#). You can download an IDE from
http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/ called SharpDevelop which has a
similar interface to Visual Studio.net. It works the best with the C#
compiler but also works with VB.net. Seems like the SDK is a really big
download.

Dick Kistler
 
I like Sharpdevelop. It's better suited to C# development-as it has a form
designer for that, but not for VB.Net
 
Dick said:
There was once a Visual Basic "Control Creation Edition" available
from Microsoft free. It would let you write Active-X controls I think
that it was VB 5.0.
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You can actually write any standard Windows apps with the CCE -- the only
thing it DIDN'T do is let you compile such apps to standalone executables.
You can run your apps from within the editor without restriction, though.

The last known URL that I had for it was...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/downloads/cce/default.asp

....but it doesn't exist anymore, and there are no search results when
searching both www.microsoft.com and msdn.microsoft.com for 'vbcce.exe'
(which is the filename of the app). I may post it to my web site in
the near future for posterity, as it's freely distributable.
 
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