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Anybody tried vb6 in a smartphone runnig Win7?
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Te short answer is that you can't do it.
A longer answer is that "Windows 7 for smartphones", as you call it, is actually Windows Phone 7 - this may appear pedantic, but the point is that it is not Windows 7, or even a cut-down version of Windows 7. It is a completely different OS (based on Windows Embedded CE 6.0) and there is no VB6 runtime available for it, let alone any of the other libraries.
Once upon a time there was a product called eVB that worked on ancient phones based on earlier versions of Windows CE, but that was abandoned years ago (and was really VBScript, not VB).
Windows Phone 7 uses .NET, so you can use a number of .NET languages for development (you can directly develop apps in the latest version of Visual Studio, for example)
A longer answer is that "Windows 7 for smartphones", as you call it, is actually Windows Phone 7 - this may appear pedantic, but the point is that it is not Windows 7, or even a cut-down version of Windows 7. It is a completely different OS (based on Windows Embedded CE 6.0) and there is no VB6 runtime available for it, let alone any of the other libraries.
Once upon a time there was a product called eVB that worked on ancient phones based on earlier versions of Windows CE, but that was abandoned years ago (and was really VBScript, not VB).
Windows Phone 7 uses .NET, so you can use a number of .NET languages for development (you can directly develop apps in the latest version of Visual Studio, for example)
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Actually there is a development system called NSBasic/CE that can be used to create applications for Windows Mobile up through 6.5, and the IDE is very much like VB6. The runtime is a small wrapper library to provide the instrinsic controls and use the VBScript engine and several Microsoft controls, both of which came from the eVB era.
Phone 7 was a travesty that helped destroy their market share in the mobile segment. NSBasic applications (and many others) are blocked from working under the new regime, which isn't even full .Net but a version of Silverlard. The application envonment there is tightly sandboxed so even though CE lives underneath it, it may as well be iOS for all you care.
One more reason you may as well go Android today... even though I found out how much that sucks too in other ways, but that's another topic.
I think the motto at Microsoft these days is "Dare to fail!" Google hasn't set the bar very high.
Phone 7 was a travesty that helped destroy their market share in the mobile segment. NSBasic applications (and many others) are blocked from working under the new regime, which isn't even full .Net but a version of Silverlard. The application envonment there is tightly sandboxed so even though CE lives underneath it, it may as well be iOS for all you care.
One more reason you may as well go Android today... even though I found out how much that sucks too in other ways, but that's another topic.
I think the motto at Microsoft these days is "Dare to fail!" Google hasn't set the bar very high.
dilettante
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If you enjoy a good "idiot's rant" see my posting at:
All Your Base Are Belong To Google: i.e. Android Chaos
All Your Base Are Belong To Google: i.e. Android Chaos
>there is a development system
As I recall that actually churns out JavaScript code which in turn runs in a browser, somewhat limiting functionality and performance ...
There's also one called Basic4PPC which worked on Windows CE 5.0 through to Windows Mobile 6.5, and was/is .Net-based. And they also gave up when Windows Phone 7 came out, and moved their focus to Android instead.
As I recall that actually churns out JavaScript code which in turn runs in a browser, somewhat limiting functionality and performance ...
There's also one called Basic4PPC which worked on Windows CE 5.0 through to Windows Mobile 6.5, and was/is .Net-based. And they also gave up when Windows Phone 7 came out, and moved their focus to Android instead.
dilettante
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You're thinking of their current product that generates JavaScript from a VB-like syntax in order to run on iPhone, Android, etc.
For that matter if you've been keeping up Microsoft considers script+HTML a viable development medium for applets too. It's a big part of the Metro push.
For that matter if you've been keeping up Microsoft considers script+HTML a viable development medium for applets too. It's a big part of the Metro push.
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dilettante
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The entropy's arrow of time does seem to be gaining steam lately.
dilettante
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>Not me. I'm not a programmer.
Well we can't all live off our investments made in gold futures 30 years ago.
Well we can't all live off our investments made in gold futures 30 years ago.
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