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Figured I'd post about it and at least gain some humor in the situation 
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Have you started the rewrite yet?
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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hehe, no time and no permission.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Ahhh, the 'no money for the rewrite' took me weeks, ended up doing a C# version at the weekend for my own benefit. The people in charge needed to use it, so I gave them my C# version while I was working on the VB version, the exe ran faster and was smaller I was asked why I still converting the VB... 
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It will happen sooner or later to me too. I worked on that shite until 8 months ago.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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charlieg wrote: I've inherited a Visual Basic project.  Last time I saw VB was back in the early 90s.
VB.NET, or VB6?
The first is easy to translate to C#, can even be done by a machine. If it is VB6, it should simply be burned, without any questions.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Looks like VB6.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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charlieg wrote: Looks like VB6.
Then it was written by a "VB6 professional".
Run. Run like hell. I'm not joking either. This is my professional advice, don't get burned by that crap. Run while you have the chance.
Or ask for at least a thousand dollar more each month. If you accept a VB6-project, you really deserve it.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I feel personally attakced
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Tell me how you really feel... 
Yeah, I don't have much choice in the matter. Thankfully, it's a relatively simple application.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I remember my first VB project. Until that point I hadn't even looked at VB, in school I went from Pascal to C++, then Java, and stuck with C based languages.
Politely pointed out that I might not be the best choice from the pool of developers as I did not have VB on my resume, didn't know VB, had never worked in it, and didn't understand it.
My PHB replied that since I knew C# and Java so VB should be easy by comparison. He then went on to assign a project deadline based on his reading of chicken bones.
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RJOberg wrote: VB should be easy by comparison
Well, yes, surely it's easier to forget how to code than it is to learn how to!
PHB's can be so much smarter than they seem (admittedly that's still not remotely smart in the conventional sense of the word).
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Don't worry, you'll forget about those silly curly braces and semi-colons eventually.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Yes. Yes he will. Sometimes I write
If something Then ... in C++. Or Next at the end of for loops.
IT lives. IT wants to be fed. IT won't let you go.
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Isn't that the truth! I looked at the code, and I'm thinking ewwww and that's just with the syntax.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I have a feeling we may see some new posts at the Weird and Wonderful forum...which imho should be renamed WTE! as that's more in line with the content.
So, at least you got the VB6 IDE to work. Hopefully you aren't stuck with a bunch of third-party dependencies. Good luck!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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RickZeeland wrote: Congratulations, it's really a lovely language
So is brainfuck, but I would not want a project in that language.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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charlieg wrote: I figured out how to find the dang source code.
Beware of the leopard.
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charlieg wrote:
It took me a few minutes poking around before I figured out how to find the dang source code.
Jeeze!
If you can't even handle VB, it's time to practice your burger-flipping techniques.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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If you can handle VB6, you can handle anything.
Those who can, do. Those who cannot, teach. Your burgerflippers are the part that fail even at teaching.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: If you can handle VB6, you can handle anything.
Ain't that the truth.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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VB6 wasn't a bad tool. I could do pretty much anything I needed to with it, there was a lot of business apps as well as things like assemblers, game emulators and useful utilities written in VB6. I'm sure at one point I saw a VB6 first edition of UnrealEd floating around.
VB.NET on the other hand, well, you may as well use C#, I find converting VB6 across to C# quite therapeutic, I don't think I'm a sadist...
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.. is a hard thing to implement.. 
But getting ever closer... Just a little bug some times (at the end, eat a whole piece!  )
Closer — imgbb.com
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