Anyone ever make serious programs in VB?
 

VB gets trashed left and right, but its actually a very powerful language capable of tons of shit. The language is as strong as its coder ...

anyhow i was just wondering if anyone has made any serious shit with VB?

in class we did a case study that included a VB prog tied into SQL i think? Was made to manage inventory for a book store or some shit.

:/

you still got the code?

ya know i might have the code of it somewhere, it was a very indepth case study where we made an entire ecommerce site for this book store.

i *THINK* it is a popular case study done by other schools, its called "book nook" or something.

anyhow ill look around, was a pretty kick ass site.

I use VB to develop stuff to help business all the time. I've written quite a few mailers, a database driven TGP submitter, thumbailers, and pretty much everything else that helps being a pornographer be that much less stressful.

Not to mention expired domain finders, PR checkers, all that stuff that takes all the labor out of getting a big return on your investments.

sweet ...

its amazing how microsucks has made it such a basic program easy enough for the dumbest newbie, and yet still give it the functionality and capability to make powerful business applications.

And i just love modular code, so much easier than top-down style :2 cents:

Yep... I have a lot of software written in VB and it works great :thumbsup VB isn't shabby at all :)

I use vb all the time to make my life easier, I have even sold a few programs to some people. I was really thinking about starting a service using vb. The job would cost cheaper then a program made in C++, but it would also cut the time in half.
:2 cents:

You can take VB to an impressive new level (almost as powerful and low-level as c++) when you start using windows API calls.... The whole system is suddenly your playground.

:thumbsup

Its easy to get started and a great tool for teaching yourself.

I have made lots of programs with vb just for the simplicity.

A translator tie in for Yahoo Messenger.

A standalone voice client for yahoo messenger.

Search engine keyword html pages.

Complex Wordlist creation.

Porn Site standalones.

Post bot's :)

In some areas it lacks or is not complex enough. But in general its a great starter coding tool.

mmm API calls :-)


The bookstore database is an MS demo database which comes
with most MS programming and database applications. There is a
few sample apps by MS and a lot of books have further
developed these demo applications and added extra features.
It's popular to use the books database because everyone has it.
The sample code is usually used as a base with books adding
features depending on what subjects they need to cover.

-Ben

Hey if you want a VB adventure that will teach you a lot about it....

Try coding a multithreaed system of events and calls in VB6. VB is
actually not meant to be able to do it but by cleaver use of proxy-
stub DLLs and such you can "trick" VB into multithreading. Too
complex to explain here but a great angle to findout a lot about
the inner workings of VB.

I've heard that it's covered in a different way in .NET tho.

-Ben

hmm i could have sworn i remember doing multi-thread apps in VB ages ago .... or was it Java


damn my memory is shot :(

I am a professional full time developer and a part time porno webmaster.

With VB I created several industrial machine management applications, telephony applications, alarm systems with all kinds of sensors you can imagine, multicamera video surveillance applications, remote management through telephone, SMS or web, just to name a few. Give me a machine with a serial port or IP interface and I will control it through a PC. I also created all kinds of "normal" applications (a database and the insert/save/edit/delete shit).

For my webmaster activity I created a VB aplication that reads my local database of pictures and links to sponsor hosted galleries, creates the galleries from templates on a per sponsor/niche basis, creates the indexes and uploads it to my 28 domains. When it finishes, the app crawls my sponsors pages and mixes the data with my local index. Then this data will be uploaded to my mysql database on the webserver to feed my search engine. This process takes about 12 hours, but in the end I have over 82.000 html unduplicated pages on my webserver, fully optimized for search engines - all my sites are PR5/6.

I am also building a new house fully controlable from another VB set of applications (almost finished). Lights, shutters, custumizable alarm system, outdoor CCTV, distributed video, distributed audio, distributed infrared controls, indoor temperature control, outdoor humidity (for grass and garden) can all be controled through the PC, infrared, phone, SMS and Web. (They can also be controled the conventional way by pressing buttons, so everything is fine even if the computer explodes!!!)

It really makes me laugh when I hear people saying that VB sucks and C++ and Java rocks. C++ is good if you are writing drivers, for example, when you need direct access to the hardware. But if you need it, why don´t they programm in assembler? Java is a marketing success, it really sucks (I think it is successeful because Sun tried to fight Microsoft)

VB ROCKS :thumbsup

Used it to write a Toolbar w/ auto updates.