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Eugene

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2. Microsoft Excel used Visual Basic to allow users to code extensions.

Reply to AllaN01Bear (Original post)

Wed Dec 13, 2023, 11:37 AM

Dec 2023

Microsoft now offers tools to migrate that code to C#.

Way back in the 90s, I used Visual Basic to write a tool that was part of a larger
proprietary system. I eventually rewrote it in C++.

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i am into old programing languages , esp basic . were there any business apps in basic ? i know there are a ton of [View all] AllaN01Bear Dec 2023 OP

chatGPT advises bucolic_frolic Dec 2023 #1

Microsoft Excel used Visual Basic to allow users to code extensions. Eugene Dec 2023 #2

I worked in a large corporation Captain Zero Dec 2023 #3

Peachtree Accounting adnoid Dec 2023 #4

I worked on Taxcut willamette Dec 2023 #5

I remember a whole lot of business stuff written in BASIC and wrote some myself. hunter Dec 2023 #6