VB6 Open Sourced!

[dugor]

http://reddevnews.com/articles/2011/05/19/microsoft-to-open-source-vb6.aspx

"At Tech-Ed this week, Microsoft told its Most Valued Professionals that the company is open sourcing the code to Visual Basic 6.0 on its CodePlex community development site before the end of June."

Wow! This is amazing news. I can't wait to see what kind of enhancements / addons are released by people now.

*Edit*
Googled a little more, might not be true :(

[Link]

I wonder myself, well hey everything just has to be upgraded.

Smile_ :cheesy:

[Helladen]

Read the comments below the article, it was just a false rumor. But it would of been awesome if they released it.

[Devogen]

It's a hoax.

[dxxknight]

would be awesome for all the coders but for me as a real newbie in vb wouldn't make much of a difference.

[Robin]

> CORRECTED: Microsoft Strongly Denies VB 6 Going Open Source, Sources Retract Statement
>
>     By Kathleen Richards
>     05/19/2011
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> Redmond Developer News has retracted its earlier report that Microsoft had told MVPs at the Tech-Ed Conference that it planned to open source the Visual Basic 6 programming language.
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> Microsoft's Doug Seven, director of product management for Visual Studio tools and languages, strongly denied a story reported here earlier that Microsoft planned to open source VB 6.
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> "There's no more solid source than me. It's not true," he said.
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> The statement was in response to a story published earlier on this site that said that the rumor of VB6 being opened source, first heard at Tech-Ed and then spread on Twitter, was confirmed by an independent source.
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> After a Microsoft spokeswoman provided a statement from Doug Seven, RDN contacted the independent source again to re-confirm the reported information. The independent source then retracted his statements.
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> The original poster on Twitter has also retracted his statement.
>
> RDN regrets for the error.

Loool. If you want to make an RAD language in C then you might as well make your own.