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    Re: Check if ProgID exists?

    HKCR? - Just search your registry for Word.Application for instance.
    But there are more options - if you are not an administrator then sometimes classes get registered under current user portion of...
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    Re: The future of VBScript?

    You may notice - e.g. here ( https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/porting/apps-on-arm-troubleshooting-x86 ), that on ARM you either do not have 64-bit support.
    You may also notice that in...
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    Re: Alternative to VB.net ?

    Yes, it does - in general. And so does Python (GUI via wxwidgets), Ruby, FreePascal (http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/) and others.
    Of course you have options to call exits to platform specific...
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    Re: Alternative to VB.net ?

    No, that didn't work even in VB.net. I tried with a few code pieces. None of them worked in .net.


    I could not avoid every emotion during that evaluation period, but of course there were also...
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    Re: Alternative to VB.net ?

    Agree, application menus were a mess. Manipulated them partly using Windows API, as far as I remember.


    Can't agree with that. While the handler thing in .net and Java is a cleaner thing than old...
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    Re: Alternative to VB.net ?

    ok, seriously: What features in .net or a current version of Visual Studio really improved your productivity in the .net world, what you didn't have in VB classic and what you don't have in other...
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    Re: Alternative to VB.net ?

    I knew that, but this is theory. This is the argument of the Microsoft guys, but as long as nobody else is implementing that standard for other environments that argument is pretty worthless....
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    Re: Alternative to VB.net ?

    One thing is that we are very far from a self-driving car (to stick to the car example) and another is that there are far more considerations than just how fast/complicated it is to learn a/the new...
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    HD serial number and restoring from backup

    Have you ever thought about that the harddisk could get defect and has to be changed? - Imagine you are two weeks on holiday while an Administrator at the customer is restoring a backup to a new...
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    by mwildam
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    Here is another method for checking file...

    Here is another method for checking file existence as I read somewhere that the GetAttr method is a little faster than the Dir function.

    Public Function Exist(FileOrDirName As String) As Boolean
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    Corrupt Exe files & insufficient error messages

    I generally have no problems with VB5, there are only two really annoying things with it:

    - Sometimes when compiling to an exe I experienced that the exe file is corrupt and I had to recompile....
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    I know this from cut and paste operations from...

    I know this from cut and paste operations from somewhere (b.e. Internet explorer) into VB. Sometimes there are invisible characters in the lines (chr 0 or whatever).
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    Only unhandy

    When I started to generate demo versions and serial numbers for my applications, I also thought about the HDD serial number but then I decided not to do that because of the following reasons:

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    The only thing I found in the windows API a few...

    The only thing I found in the windows API a few days ago, as I wanted to run process under other user accounts was the following:

    Declare Function CreateProcessAsUser Lib "kernel32" Alias...
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