Getting the ball rolling. Which VB6 projects are you working on?

[yereverluvinuncleber]

First class stuff, didn't know it existed, very useful! Are you still keeping it updated? I think I could use it.
Your development environment must have changed over the years from the days of Win95, 66mhz to 3.0ghz quad core I might imagine and the MS BASIC language version from QB or PBS to VBn to VB6 or similar?

It is fascinating how for many of us, our work environment and life has changed so much in all that time whilst the essential component that enables all of our creativity, the VB6 IDE and language has stayed exactly the same. The same place to work regardless of all.

[AAraya]

First class stuff, didn't know it existed, very useful! Are you still keeping it updated? I think I could use it.
Your development environment must have changed over the years from the days of Win95, 66mhz to 3.0ghz quad core I might imagine and the MS BASIC language version from QB or PBS to VBn to VB6 or similar?

Thanks bro!

You're looking at a recent release - within the last year. The pace of future development will probably drop off however as I'm having to reenter the work force.

The first version was created using VB3

[yereverluvinuncleber]

The first version was created using VB3

Has the core functionality always been more or less the same? What was the development machine under win95, do you remember?

I remember using a directory differences tool under open VMS years ago and it was an essential component when I maintained the systems that controlled the chocolate factory at MARS back in the late 1990s. We used it to compare the folder structures of two different machines over DECnet.

Looks like your tool has been a good source of income over the years.

[AAraya]

Has the core functionality always been more or less the same? What was the development machine under win95, do you remember?

I remember using a directory differences tool under open VMS years ago and it was an essential component when I maintained the systems that controlled the chocolate factory at MARS back in the late 1990s. We used it to compare the folder structures of two different machines over DECnet.

Looks like your tool has been a good source of income over the years.

Initial development was either on a 386 or 486, can't recall which.

The core functionality of comparing folders has always been there but the implementation has evolved quite a bit to make it more scalable, performant, handle error conditions better, handle Unicode file/folder names, etc.... Additional related functionality has been added over the years.

Over the last 18 years, FolderMatch has provided a full time income for about 10 years and part time income for about 8. Before that it was basically pizza money. It's had a good run in the world of shareware.

Now with so much of the world moving away from desktop applications and the flood of quality freeware, it's harder.