[Gambas-user] About Visual Studio Express

[Rolf-Werner Eilert]

Am 28.03.2012 14:40, schrieb Demosthenes Koptsis:
> These days i started to test Visual Studio Express 2010 to compare it
> with Gambas3.
>
> Does anyone have any experience with VB Studio Express ?
>
> Are there any characteristics that may be we wanted to see in Gambas3 ?
>
> Thank you !
>

Yes and no. I made a small app with VB Express (don't know if it was the 
2010 edition, but it could be) some time ago, and I found it pretty 
roundabout to do simple things. When I look at the code I wrote and see 
something like 
This.Is.Something.Very.Simple.But.As.Roundabout.As.Possible.To.Find and 
documentation about it was so poor, I know what I like Gambas for. I had 
to search very long before I found simple things like how to change a 
letter in a text widget or print or whatever.

I have been thinking about making a large(r) program for myself and one 
for my brother-in-law's company with it, but after trying around a bit, 
I found there were so many obstacles which scared me away from it I 
decided to stay with good old Gambas and code it here.

In Gambas, I would like to have a very comfortable kind of table like 
the one in VB, but on the other side, if that's for the price of speed 
and ease of code, better not. It shouldn't be as slowly as the VB table.

After all, it's the code behind which makes an application's sense, not 
if it looks stylish. The programs I make are good with a standard GUI 
like the one Gambas offers.

Regards

Rolf