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twinBASIC status update:

twinBASIC update May 22, 2022

Highlights include the beginnings of a Screen object, an updated Attribute syntax, and a reimagined ending to a Disney classic (yes, it's...

twinBASIC status update:

twinBASIC update May 15, 2022

Highlights include a modern browser control for Microsoft Access (yes, you read that right) and a spirited discussion regarding attribute...

Mike Wolfe's Access DevCon 2022 Video Recording "twinBASIC Update"


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4DRAcdH9tg

There are demos of

[13:42] Installing the twinBASIC IDE
[17:00] Creating a...

twinBASIC status update:

twinBASIC update May 8, 2022

Highlights include version control-friendly improvements to the new IDE, an IDE Font Size setting, and a milestone for another VBx...

twinBASIC status update:

twinBASIC update May 1, 2022

Highlights include Set Next Statement support, new code samples and templates, a roadmap update, and a 7-Zip VBA library written in...

twinBASIC status update:

twinBASIC update DevCon 2022

Links and resources from Mike Wolfe's talk at Access DevCon Vienna 2022,
twinBASIC: Happy First Birthday!

You should also be able to use 32 bit OCXs in a 64 bit app...

twinBASIC have updated their roadmap

https://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?890181-TwinBasic&p=5565434#post5565434

The new twinBASIC IDE is looking good and the ability to import VB6 forms and...

For those not on Github, here is the latest twinBASIC roadmap...

twinBASIC ROADMAP
Dates given are tentative and subject to change. Only the major issues are listed here. Smaller feature requests...

From Github:

It's official. The twinBASIC VS Code extension has had it's last update for 2022.

Development of the twinBASIC VS Code extension is paused until 2023.

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Development of...

twinBASIC status update:

twinbasic update April 24,2022

Highlights include updated samples for building custom VBIDE tool windows and custom ActiveX controls that you can drop on Access forms...

twinBASIC status update:

twinBASIC update April 16, 2022

Highlights include multiple debug console performance improvements and a workaround for antivirus software flagging twinBASIC as...

twinBASIC status update:

twinBASIC update April 10, 2022

Highlights include 7 (!) new releases of the twinBASIC IDE and twinBASIC solving a difficult problem for a popular MS Access open-source...

twinBASIC status update:

twinBASIC update April 3,2022

Highlights include the release of the new IDE and an announcement about twinBASIC's role at the upcoming Access DevCon Vienna conference.

​The new twinBASIC IDE is now available.
This is a custom-written twinBASIC IDE - not the VS Code IDE that was used previously.
This is a more VB6-like IDE for twinBASIC programming.


To...

For the early birds... BETA 1 of the twinBASIC IDE is now available...

twinBASIC status update:

twinBASIC update March 27,2022

Highlights include a release date for the twinBASIC IDE and plans to open-source the IDE's source code.

The twinBASIC IDE is scheduled...

The expected release date of the new twinBASIC IDE is Tuesday 29th March


New twinBASIC IDE demo

New twinBASIC IDE...

New twinBASIC IDE demo

Not long to wait now :)


twinBASIC programming just gets better and better

twinBASIC status update:

twinBASIC update March 20,2022

Highlights include a cryptic update on the new IDE's release date and a possible twinBASIC solution to the oft-delayed Access modern...

twinBASIC status update:

twinBASIC update March 13,2022

Highlights include another sneak peek of the upcoming twinBASIC IDE and a special announcement regarding Access DevCon Vienna 2022.

A sneak peek at the new twinBASIC IDE...

New twinBASIC IDE

A simpler and more VB6-like IDE - available soon :)

twinBASIC programming just gets better and better :thumb:

I don't see how you can describe FreeBasic as "VB6 like". It can't import VB6 source code, it doesn't support ActiveXs.

At best it can be described as 'almost QuickBasic like'

twinBASIC status update:

twinBASIC update March 6, 2022

Highlights include a sneak peek at the new twinBASIC IDE (currently under development) and a brief comparison between RAD Basic and...

twinBASIC is available for download. You can download and try it for yourself. New releases are regularly available for download.
You can write code, and copy and paste VB6 code into twinBASIC,...

twinBASIC status update:

twinBASIC update February 27,2022

Highlights include multiple form designer improvements and a *BIG* announcement about the future of the twinBASIC IDE.

The current...

twinBASIC status update:

twinBASIC update February 20,2022

Highlights include checkbox-style list boxes, native Winforms progress bar and image controls, and an option to align controls to grid...

twinBASIC status update:

twinBASIC update February 13,2022

Highlights include a new Settings filter bar and WinForms Controls Package updates included by default with future twinBASIC extension...

twinBASIC status update:

twinBASIC update February 6,2022

Highlights include the milestone release of WinForms functionality, control inheritance, ReadOnly class properties, and twinPACK...

For me the upsizing is key. So I've got small customers using Jet/Access as the database, and larger customers using MS SQL Server or Oracle. All use the identical software, unchanged. All that...

Do you have a different Windows 10 PC to try that on?

I assume you are doing this from your VB6 app. Have you tried running the same SQL query in your .mdb (as a Query). Does that have the same...

Here, for those who haven't seen it, is Microsoft's Support Statement for Visual Basic 6.0 on Windows...

Microsoft Visual Basic 6 support policy

Windows 11 (and Windows Server 2022) are...

That's correct, but I don't think I've used a table-type recordset since VB3.
I always use dynaset-type recordsets (or very rarely snapshot-type).

I don't have any information whether most apps...

I'd certainly agree with that, it's better to use UNC paths rather than rely on drive mapping (though not everyone is familiar with UNC paths).



I've never come across that issue. I had one...

This isn't a good way of handling an Access database.
For many years Microsoft has recommended you should split the database into a front-end database on each local PC and a back-end database on the...

twinBASIC status update:

twinBASIC update January 30,2022

Highlights include a sample project demonstrating the WaynesGrid control and a timeline update for the release of (some) native Win32...

twinBASIC status update:

twinBASIC update January 23,2022

Highlights include the introduction of TWINPACKs and the TWINSERV package manager, IntelliSense improvements, and easier reporting of...

twinBASIC status update:

twinBASIC update January 16,2022

Highlights include the CompileIf attribute and IsObject function for generics, an experimental package manager, and 10 Guiding...

twinBASIC status update:

twinBASIC update January 9, 2022

Highlights include error messages that now match VBx, a twinBASIC Discord server, and a teaser about twinBASIC's potential as a VBA...

twinBASIC status update:

twinBASIC update January 2, 2022

Highlights include a feature to generate missing implementations, minor improvements to the Reference List UX, and some spirited...