Alternatives to VB

[Ganjika]

Does anyone here use any good freeware alternatives to VB? I always hear folks talking about VB6 for some reason, I might just be reading old posts though. I have heard about freebasic for starters - Would this work or does it -have- to be VB and/or a certain kind? When editing with VB what file(s) are you exactly editing on server/client side?

[Ruins of Hell]

I don't think FreeBasic would work. You might try [Envelop](http://www.freebyte.com/programming/compilers/envelop.html) which claims to compile VB6.

[Ganjika]

Thanks, I'll give it a shot and post what goes down here.
Btw, what file am I going to try to be editing when I get this software downloaded?

Update its a 32 bit program so I'll have to take it into VMWare it looks like.
Would I be able to take the server files I need to edit into vmware, edit them there and copy them back into the windows 7 64 bit server installation?

[Ruins of Hell]

@Ganjika:

> Thanks, I'll give it a shot and post what goes down here.
> Btw, what file am I going to try to be editing when I get this software downloaded?
>
> Update its a 32 bit program so I'll have to take it into VMWare it looks like.
> Would I be able to take the server files I need to edit into vmware, edit them there and copy them back into the windows 7 64 bit server installation?

VB6 is a 32-bit program as well. Run it in compatibility mode for XP SP3 and as an administrator.