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Anyone used PowerBasic or QuickBasic for Windows dev?

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    #31
    Originally posted by eek View Post
    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.
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      #32
      Originally posted by sasguru View Post
      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

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        #33
        Originally posted by Platypus View Post
        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

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          #34
          Originally posted by d000hg View Post
          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.
          Behold the warranty -- the bold print giveth and the fine print taketh away.

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            #35
            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.

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              #36
              You want a proper requirements visualisation / prototyping tool. Like:

              Balsamiq Mockups | Balsamiq

              Or:

              http://www.axure.com/

              Or:

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                #37
                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.
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