Visual Basic 6 - Portable Edition (VB6)

The very first "programming experience" I ever had was with Visual Basic (VB) when I was in high school. I can't say that it was "cool" because I was totally lost, didn't have a clue about programming. At that time I didn't care too much about computers, and I thought it was a waste of time.

Howeverrrrrrrrrrrrrr, one day, I changed my mind and got my first computer (around 2001-2002) and decided to be a programmer, yeah!!! 0s and 1s come to me!!!!! (I wanted to be like Neo from Matrix lol, don't blame me, it was a good movie) Of course, new toy, everything was happiness, perfection, but that didn't last too much, by the first week my computer crashed, (yes, first week -__-) What happened? a virus, a computer virus, an evil piece of software got into my computer  and caused some problems. I called a friend and with his help we re-install Windows. Well, after that my PC was like new (for a few days) then I started working with my projects and school stuff, until, my computer crashed (yes, one more time haha). So I called my friend again and we fixed it one more time.

So after that I was fascinated with those "computer viruses" and the way they "attack", so I did a little research and found out that the one that attacked my PC was created using VB. This little guy deleted some files from my System32 folder and didn't let my PC start up properly. Smart, right? just create a software that deletes a couple files and mess up a couple hundred/thousand computers.

Later, I downloaded VB6 and starting playing with the code and I learned VB language. In those years, VB became so popular, because it was really easy to learn and at the same time was a powerful tool. For example, you can get access to some low level system information and PC resources with just a couple commands. (Something that is harder to achieve in Java)

I'm still using VB6 for small personal projects. It is a super old version (1998) but easy to use, especially if you are just starting programming. I use it to create my own desktop applications. I have a portable edition in my flash drive. I don't need to install it, just open up the program and code.

Nowadays is hard to find this VB6 Portable Edition, so I uploaded to my GitHub account. Here is the link:


https://github.com/rolando-febrero/Tutorial/commit/5d1c52dc103996f91eb16c17a03d4a0e08438af3

I run it in Windows XP and 10 and have no compatibility issues, so far so good. It is a hacked version, so the antivirus might report it as a Trojan, but it isn't, This version is reliable.

I'm going to share some VB6 code later, =) but if you can't wait, you can find a lot of  VB info in the Word Wide Web...