Famous VB Progs

[Jop]

Does anybody know what 'famous' prog's are made with VB?
I heard ICQ was made with VB.

Is that true? and what other progs are made with VB then?
thanx

ICQ was made with C++,
and either HotDog or HotMetal(both HTML editors) was made in VB, I cant remember which one, HotMetal is from SoftQuad Software, and HotDog is from Sausage Software.

[Joacim Andersson]

I don't know about HotMetal but HotDog was written in VB.

Thanks, I have been thinking about this for 25 minutes and I couldnt think of which one.

[dimava]

I heard that a lot of viruses were made in vb


when I just started learning vb, I didn't think that it was an open lauguge, like to make a calculator you just have to do something and thats it, no modifications no way to make algorathemes and studd now I know that vb is a very open laugange

[dimava]

oh yea, I think that bill gates was also made in vb... that explains why windows always crashes

[SteveCRM]

Why are computers like air conditioners? Because whenever you open up windows they break!



Sorry John, this was pointless, you can subtract a postcount for thisone

[Edited by SteveCRM on 08-29-2000 at 01:04 AM]

There are a few programs written in VB5 and now, some written in VB6.
Some companies actually use VB.
But something like ICQ would probably use C++.
Getright is made with C++, but it could also be made with VB.
There is an example of how to do it on http://www.planet-source-code.com.
I did not try it though, but here is the link: Internet Downloader (like GoZilla).

There are ways to see what the file was made in, for example, this will check to see if a program was made in Vb3.0:

Function ScanForVB(ByVal sFile$)
Dim VariantA As Variant
Dim VariantB As Variant
Dim VariantC As Variant
Dim VariantD As Variant
Dim SingleA As Single
Dim SingleB As Single
Dim StringA As String
Dim EnterKey As String

On Error Resume Next
Open sFile$ For Binary As #1
    EnterKey$ = Chr$(13) & Chr$(10)
    Msg$ = ""
    VariantA = LOF(2)
    VariantB = VariantA
    VariantC = 1

    If VariantB > 32000 Then
        VariantD = 32000
    ElseIf VariantB = 0 Then
        VariantD = 1
    Else
        VariantD = VariantB
    End If

    StringA$ = String$(VariantD, " ")
    Get #1, VariantC, StringA$

    SingleA! = InStr(1, StringA$, Chr(1) & Chr(0) & Chr(0) & Chr(8) & Chr(86) & Chr(66) & Chr(82) & Chr(85) & Chr(78) & Chr(49) & Chr(48) & Chr(48) & Chr(0) & Chr(0) & Chr(24), 1)
    SingleB! = InStr(1, StringA$, Chr(1) & Chr(0) & Chr(0) & Chr(8) & Chr(86) & Chr(66) & Chr(82) & Chr(85) & Chr(78) & Chr(50) & Chr(48) & Chr(48) & Chr(0) & Chr(0) & Chr(24), 1)
    SingleC! = InStr(1, StringA$, Chr(1) & Chr(0) & Chr(0) & Chr(8) & Chr(86) & Chr(66) & Chr(82) & Chr(85) & Chr(78) & Chr(51) & Chr(48) & Chr(48) & Chr(0) & Chr(0) & Chr(24), 1)

    If SingleA! Or SingleB! Or SingleC! Then
        If SingleA! <> 0 Then ScanForVB = SingleA!
        If SingleB! <> 0 Then ScanForVB = SingleB!
        If SingleC! <> 0 Then ScanForVB = SingleC!
    Else
        ScanForVB = 0
    End If
Close #1
End Function

Usage:

VB_Scan% = ScanForVB("C:\prog.exe")
If VB_Scan% <> 0 Then
    MsgBox "This file was made in Visual Basic 3.0.", 64
    End Select
Else
    MsgBox "This program was made in a language unknown.", 64
End If

I like VB. Even though it requires runtimes files, it's still easy to use and a good language to know .