Im thinking about a career change . . presently Lead Quality Tech with a major manufacturer. Id like to learn some programming and possibly pursue that into a new career. I have “above average” comp skills(among my peergroup at least) . . Windows 95, understand NT 4.0 install/config . . Lotus spreadsheets/database/macro writing . . Have Excel at work but never have time to explore it. . . Image Editing(PSP) . .
After reading another thread here; it seems obvious that C++ and Visual Basic might be wise avenues for a newbie to pursue programming.
So I downloaded Bloodshed Dev-C++3.95 and VB 5.0 Control Creation Edition.
I havent gotten so far as to search/download/copy a beginners tutorial for C++; but I did download several VB 5.0 tutorials and herein lies my confusion; is VB 5 CCE only an Active X Generator? The wizard and sample files mentioned in the VB 5.0 tutorial do not exist in CCE. Since I cannot find a tutorial for CCE; I assume this was add-on to VB 5.
aarrgghhh!!
Can I design/write windows exe’s with VB 5CCE?. At this point I could care less about compatibility with internet uploading or distribution. I just want to learn, save the results to a exe. and run it locally.
Should I just spring 100 bucks for the VB 6.0 Learning Edition?
HELP!
I can’t commment on VB-CCE (I didn’t even know that such a beastie existed), but my wife purchased a copy of VB6 Learning Edition for $99, and it’s pretty complete. She builds applications with it as she needs them all the time.
As far as I could tell from a quick look at the specs, the only thing that it can’t do that I require in my everyday work (I use the more expensive VB Professional) is perform TCP/IP functions - the Winsock VB control isn’t included in the Learning Edition.
bda, I just happen to have been fooling around with VB5.0CCE this past week. I had a VB3 application that needed some major modifications and was considering whether to upgrade to VB6 or continue to use VB3. I found VB5 CCE on my disk and decided to see if I could use it.
It turns out that it has a “Standard EXE” mode, besides “ActiveX” mode. I found I could load all my VB3 stuff into it, and it would actually run correctly within the VB environment. Trouble is there doesn’t seem to be a “Make EXE” command, so you can’t make a stand-alone application with it. So, it turned out to be rather useless to me. And mine didn’t have a help file, so it wouldn’t seem to be very good for beginners, either.
WGFF, do you know if the Learning Edition of VB6 can make stand-alone executables. I haven’t really decided whether to spring for the Pro version myself.
I think it can, but I don’t really know for sure - it’s on my wife’s office PC.
(Later) I just checked Microsoft’s web site (see this page ), and apparently it can.
The various VB editions are described there, and the next-highr VB Profession edition (which can produce stand-alone executrables) is described as “It includes all the features of the Learning edition, plus additional ActiveX controls, the Internet Information Server Application Designer, Integrated Data Tools and Data Environment, and the Dynamic HTML Page Designer”.
so with CCE you can run and modify earlier version EXE’s but you cant create any. your right about the help files also. they arent anywhere to be found. guess i was right; spring for the learning edition. thanks!