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Getting started in VB for your PC DMIS

I like many of you have done very little with VB. As for me; I had no idea where or how to start. I could not see how typing those hundreds of lines of script could ever save me any kind of time and as far as finding a way to learn it or someone to get me started that just got to be a joke, unless I went and took a full blown course (that I didn't even know if I'd get anything out of or if I would ever use”. I had given up.

Well the other day I happened across something I think might actually be of help and makes doing something in VB practical. I don’t need to write every one of those hundreds of lines of script, and I can start learning from myself.

What I did was I took a program I already have “A regular PC DMIS Program I built and run often” and did an EXPORT as BASIC. When I opened it up all those hundreds of lines of script were already in there and though in a different “form or language” what ever you want to call it I found that I could walk thru most if not all of it as it was the same program I have in PC DMIS also. Now rather than typing all that out I need only “ADD, SUBTRACT and CHANGE things to make it work for me.

Now I think I have a starting place to try some VB.

I don’t know maybe I’m the only one that did not know this? Maybe I’m not yet on the right track, But I think I have a starting place now and I know before this I was lost.

I hope this is helpful to some of you.

Best of luck,

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  • I have been writing small applications with VB for years now, but on occasion I still export a program to BASIC just to see some particular syntax. It is a very useful function.

    Another thing to keep in mind, as I write each VB program, I keep them in separate folders. I've accumulated about 30 or 40 of them by now. Many of them are variants of previous programs. When I want to perform a new task, I open an existing program, make some changes, and save it under a new project name.

    If I can be of any help by providing one of my examples that may be close, let me know. I will be glad to send you one if you are willing to make the effort to understand it and make your own changes in VB.
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  • I have been writing small applications with VB for years now, but on occasion I still export a program to BASIC just to see some particular syntax. It is a very useful function.

    Another thing to keep in mind, as I write each VB program, I keep them in separate folders. I've accumulated about 30 or 40 of them by now. Many of them are variants of previous programs. When I want to perform a new task, I open an existing program, make some changes, and save it under a new project name.

    If I can be of any help by providing one of my examples that may be close, let me know. I will be glad to send you one if you are willing to make the effort to understand it and make your own changes in VB.
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