i am new to vb and does anyone no a free compiler that is very small if you do please attach the url :D
Not really. You can get a very cheap VB version if you are a student from most college bookstores, but I don't know of an independant compiler for it and I doubt you would really want to write VB code outside of its native IDE. It is possible, but it would be more trouble than it's worth in most cases.
Just my 2 cents.
hmm VB without its IDE.... never even thought of this seems so far fetched..
Basic is the language behind VB, just like C++ is the laguage behind Visual C++, Microsoft's program just makes form making Visual, you can do it in raw code.. There are probably programs out there that compile Basic for free.. I've never looked, but you most likely wouldnt get the visual form editing capabilities that Microsoft's Visual Basic gives you. It would be more like mIRC scripting of dialogs.
ive programed in basic(q, z and apple) and its similar yet so different from VB. VB is far advanced unless i onlly worked with the basic of basic..
There are free compilers out there. You can find them by searching google, but I don't know how well they are.
You can write VB code outside of it's native IDE, but I wouldn't recommend it. There is a lot of extra crap that must be written for a VB app if you do it text only. Just open up a form and look at the code that is there.
Here is a link to one site for a free compiler:
http://www.freebyte.com/programming/compilers/envelop.html
Here is also what some of the code looks like for a form. This is what is generated from the IDE, along with the frx files.
VERSION 5.00
Begin VB.Form frmMain
Caption = "Form1"
ClientHeight = 2430
ClientLeft = 60
ClientTop = 345
ClientWidth = 3150
Icon = "frmMain.frx":0000
LinkTopic = "Form1"
ScaleHeight = 2430
ScaleWidth = 3150
StartUpPosition = 3 'Windows Default
Begin VB.PictureBox picNormal
Height = 615
Left = 600
Picture = "frmMain.frx":000C
ScaleHeight = 555
ScaleWidth = 555
TabIndex = 2
Top = 720
Width = 615
End
Begin VB.PictureBox picQuery
Height = 615
Left = 2160
Picture = "frmMain.frx":044E
ScaleHeight = 555
ScaleWidth = 555
TabIndex = 1
Top = 720
Width = 615
End
Begin VB.Timer Timer1
Left = 240
Top = 1920
End
Begin VB.Label Label1
Caption = "This form is never seen by the user."
Height = 375
Left = 120
TabIndex = 0
Top = 120
Width = 4335
End
End
Attribute VB_Name = "frmMain"
Attribute VB_GlobalNameSpace = False
Attribute VB_Creatable = False
Attribute VB_PredeclaredId = True
Attribute VB_Exposed = False
Option Explicit
Personally, I wouldn't want to type out every characteristic of a form.. :-x Just get M$ VB :)
But I downloaded VB from the Microsoft site! It was definitely free! Or maybe it was a trial. I dunno.
November 26th, 2002, 07:03 PM
But I downloaded VB from the Microsoft site! It was definitely free! Or maybe it was a trial. I dunno.
A lot has changed in the past six years ...
A lot has changed in the past six years ...
Too true... I guess Mono and open source makes MS think a little more. Free versions of SQL Server, VB Express is free, poorly documented APIs... oh wait - I guess that part hasn't changed :)
Yes - you can download VB Express for free. If you're looking for VB prior to the .Net framework release, then you're out of luck on free compilers.
You can also check out Mono - the open source version of the .Net framework. I think they have support for VB now.