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Programming Windows: Visual Basic Takes Over the World (Premium)
To understand why Visual Basic was such a sensation, consider again how horrible it was to create even the simplest […]

Programming Windows: Visual Basic Beginnings (Premium)
Programming Windows: Visual Basic Beginnings (Premium) – Thurrott.com Premium “In many ways, the Windows environment has been very hostile to […]

Programming Windows: Microsoft Basic (Premium)
Programming Windows: Microsoft Basic (Premium) – Thurrott.com Premium Today, Microsoft is most closely identified by its Redmond, Washington campus and […]

Programming Windows: Hello, Microsoft Basic (Premium)
Programming Windows: Hello, Microsoft Basic (Premium) – Thurrott.com Premium This one will be quick. As you’ll soon learn in the […]

Programming Windows: Hello, Visual Basic (Premium)
This was true in 1990 with Visual Basic 1.0. And it’s still true today, as Visual Basic lives on in […]

Programming Windows: Windows API Wrap-Up (Premium)
Despite having figured this out on my own, the news hit me pretty hard: UWP is basically the second-generation version […]

Programming Windows: Hello, Windows (Premium)
A Windows-based take on “hello, world” neatly explains why Windows API programming was never going to take over the world. […]

Programming Windows: Windows Application Basics (Premium)
That transition would take several years and several versions of Windows. But whether it was an operating environment on top […]