Anyone used PowerBasic or QuickBasic for Windows dev?

[d000hg]

Because he went for the obvious bob. Mind you a remember discussions on here recently that E Europe developers aren't cheap nowadays (and from my last conversation with them they're not).

Mine are cheap... at least by my standards. Under $20/hr isn't the $8/hr you get in India but still 1/3 the cost of a bog-standard UK contractor, and while not awesomely skilled they are better than 1/3 as good
Putting together a small team with myself as techy lead has worked well in the past as way to keep costs low and have a gatekeeper on quality.

[Platypus]

No I just want a way of showing him what GUI I want.
My question is that feasible?

Ah.... IIRC the UI style of PowerBasic is a bit behind the times, and I think you have to buy an add-on to get a GUI screen builder. Read their website carefully...

EDIT: Actually, Visual Fox Pro has a good GUI builder

[DimPrawn]

Ah.... IIRC the UI style of PowerBasic is a bit behind the times, and I think you have to buy an add-on to get a GUI screen builder. Read their website carefully...

EDIT: Actually, Visual Fox Pro has a good GUI builder

Visual Fox Poo

[Sysman]

Sas, does Delphi still exist? That would've been a good tool for this.

Yes and no. When I was using it, Delphi apps had a distinctive look and I could tell from just looking at a screen shot. The point of the exercise is not to have Bob try and recreate that.

[DimPrawn]

Visual Studio Express is the obvious choice, end of.

Drag 'n' Drop winforms, costs nothing, can put a bit of VB.NET or C# code behind events to give the prototype a bit of life.

Simples.

[Freamon]

You want a proper requirements visualisation / prototyping tool. Like:

Balsamiq Mockups | Balsamiq

Or:

http://www.axure.com/

Or:

iRise Home

[xoggoth]

Tend to use VB.net in VS, good dev system. Never realised how good until I started having to use Eclipse for Android stuff. Various freeware versions of VS although assume you need to have licenced version to release commercial progs.

PS Off topic but I still use VB6 for quickly knocking up little utils for my own use. It works fine on Windows 7 if you do run as administrator.