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Visual Basic 4 is when I fell in love with programming. I remember staying up late (school nights no less) just playing around and designing GUIs. I had done s
by gigel82 4y ago
Visual Basic 4 is when I fell in love with programming. I remember staying up late (school nights no less) just playing around and designing GUIs.
I had done some programming before with Pascal, C and even QBasic, but nothing was quite as fascinating as dragging and dropping fully functional controls and having them light up with functionality in minutes.
Up until a few years ago, I was still reaching out to WinForms / C# to build quick prototypes - maybe it was part nostalgia, but I didn't find anything comparable when it comes to quickly standing up a GUI prototype (for a LOB type of application, or a small utility / tool kind of thing).
- lotsoweiners 4y ago“Up until a few years ago, I was still reaching out to WinForms / C# to build quick prototypes” What replaced them for you? I still use Windows forms a lot for prototypes and utilities and was curious if there is something else I should be looking at.
- gigel82 4y agoI no longer need to write LOB / GUI apps, and I switched to node.js scripts for utilities.
- HideousKojima 4y agoI've been using the Godot game engine and C# to make various utilities. Not quite as dummy simple as WinForms but it's super easy and fun to use.
- Kwpolska 4y agoI find WinForms weird and difficult to make consistent-looking UIs in. But WPF is quite nice.