How To Install Visual Basic 6.0 On Windows 10
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I have just started at sixth form college, and I'm going to take a Computing A-level. I have been informed all the programming in the first year is in VB.NET on Windows (I believe you are allowed more freedom in the second year...)
I do have a Windows XP partition and you can download Visual Basic Express Edition for free, however I would like to know to what extent am I likely to be able to use Ubuntu (Mono or anything else) for my studies? Can anyone give me any pointers of where to start?
Realistically if this is to work I need to be able to use the same files/projects/whatever on both Ubuntu and Windows - so I can work from Windows machines at college, and more importantly so teachers can look at and mark my work! (I don't really want to make a point of asking my teacher about my Ubuntu use, I'd prefer to blend in and be a normal student...)
Verify that the correct .NET framework target is being used. After creating a solution, right click on the project and goto Options->Build->General. Not much different from targeting a specific version of .NET on Windows.
The only other issue (non mono related) that may come back to bite you is the classic line ending problem. *nix still uses LF and Windows still uses CRLF for line endings so, when you transfer your source files back and fourth between Windows/*nix. AFIAK, MonoDevelop saves source files in UTF-8 by default but VS saves source files in Windows ASCII (with windows-1252 latin ASCII with windows specific line endings). If you receive source files that were created using Visual Studio you may need to convert the format to get it to work in *nix.
As you can see, x-platform .NET development can be a little challenging at first but IMHO, it's worth it. I like MonoDevelop's non-cluttered interface (the visual effects in VS just get in the way most of the time), it loads in a fraction of the time that VS does (useful if you don't typically leave your IDE open all the time), it takes up a fraction of the space with no extra unnecessary addons (VS is really obnoxious about this).
Installing it was easy as sudo apt-get install monodevelop. Also, popular tools like NUnit (for unit testing) have been ported over to and work flawlessly in *nix. The Windows version of MonoDevelop kinda sucks (or at least it did last time I tried it).
Mono does have VB.NET language support but the framework is somewhat different in places and I'd predict that as much of your work will be about the .NET framework as it is the core language. It might not be as it sounds like it's at a fairly elemental level (no offence intended!)
Even if the work is just language-orientated, as you say, you're not going to get the silly Visual Studio meta project files. You could have problems opening things and (again, as you say) you'll definitely have problems getting things to other (perhaps less competent) people.
With this the case, and you still want Ubuntu as your main system, VirtualBox sounds like the best way of remaining compatible with your coursework. It's much more convenient than dual-booting but it requires you have a more-than-average computer for a good experience (especially with something stodgy like VS.NET).
First released in 1991, Microsoft Visual Basic was a programming environment where one could build an application by visually creating the user interface first, and then adding code. In contrast, even the smallest Visual Basic basic programs could take reams of program code to write in C or C++. Visual Basic was extremely popular for business application programming. The language itself was an interpreted BASIC dialect, however speed was maintained through the use of reusable compiled libraries (DLLs and VBX controls). These however, limited application development to Microsoft Windows.
Visual Basic 3 was the most popular version under 16-bit Windows 3.1, while Visual Basic 6 was the most popular for 32-bit Windows 95/NT and later. After version 6, Visual Basic was replaced by Visual Basic .NET, an incompatible successor.
Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, now part of Visual Studio, was the last version of the true "Visual Basic" product. It was extremely popular, and is still used in many businesses. It is the last that can create native 32-bit applications for Windows 9x and NT. The replacement product "VB.NET" requires Dot Net, and changes the core basic language in such a way that it is difficult to port VB 6 applications.
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In the context of my Master Thesis I got a Data Acquisition Card (TimeTagger4-2G by Cronologic) for my Multichannel Plate. Unfortunately it was quite cheap, because it came without a ready to use software. Only a C++ example program, some .dll, some .lib and the Windows specific drivers (hence why I use windows visual studio) were included. The example program I managed to build, run and it does what it is supposed to do. Since I need to make histograms out of my data someone suggested I use root for this. I started learning root yesterday.
So how can I include the root commands in the already existing C++ example Code?
What I tried so far:
I installed root by downloading the Pro .exe file from here: [ -root] and double clicking on it, when the download was complete. I connected the bin folder with all the .dll to my visual studio project and also the lib folder with all the .lib. I also copy pasted the content of the include folder into the same folder as my visual studio project. The only thing I changed in the code itself was to add in the beginning the command
What do you mean? ROOT can run (or compile) any C++ code from anywhere on your PC, you can also create your own executable using the ROOT libraries, like any other external libraries in Visual Studio.
Nothing to do with bash. Simply open a x86 Native Tools Command Prompt for VS 2019, call thisroot.bat from where ROOT is installed, and call .x yourfilename.C to execute the macro. For example:
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