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I am using BS2s for small mobile robots and have been trying to work out how to write GUIs for PCs. I have been mainly writing in c and assembler for embedded applications for the last 10 or so.

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I have been writing code since just after the earth cooled and the dinosaurs died. Net versions of the same program that you can compare.

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If you want to see three example programs, I posted a zip file in this thread: This may or may not make a difference, it depends on your programming style preferences. VC++ (and VB.Net) will let you do non-OO style programming, where C# (and J#) are strictly OO languages. Of the 2 languages, C++ will give you more flexibility, but C# has better IDE support. So, now that you've downloaded C# & C++, you'll notice that in WinForms/.Net, the development is very similar, with minor language syntax being the big difference. If you were serious about Visual C++ programming, it would be worth using VS standard or above for the out of the box configuration for Win32. However, to do this with the Express edition, you need to do some additional downloading and configuration. The only language version that will let you do native (not targeting the. Net framework, and the applications get compiled to IL VM language, which is native JIT compiled at run-time. The Express versions are single language versions, but the other versions contain all of the languages.Īll of the VSExpress downloads will let you do very "visual" drag and drop programming with WinForms, which is their default configuration. VS contains several languages in one IDE. What you downloaded is part of Visual Studio - again, capitalizing on the word visual. Microsoft uses the word Visual to create a brand association here Visual C++ isn't nearly as "visual" as VB. So, in a certain sense, VB is the whole RAD system, but the language is Basic. The word Visual is a marketing term that refers to the drag and drop RAD features of the IDE. Terahertz, you're confusing Visual Basic with Visual Studio.

Post Edited (Beau Schwabe (Parallax)) : 5:16:00 PM GMT Now you should be able to see it and the functions under "View->Object Browser".

This is an ActiveX control, so you will need to select the *.ocx extension under the browser menu.

from there you will need to select "Browse." To add this you will do it through "Tools->References" under the "Visual Basic Editor". for me this was located in "WINDOWS\system32" I just checked, and you can add COM capabilities. To Add new Objects you can use - Tools->References To browse the Objects you can use - View->Object Browser To Bring up the Editor - Tools->Macro->Visual Basic Editor

Inherently the communication capabilitiesĪre turned off, but it looks like you can add them through "Tools->References" under the "Visual Basic Editor".

Most people aren't even aware that there is a VB editor inside Excel. ".Beau, That's interesting about Excel, I didn't know Excel had serial communication capabilities." Would someone kindly explain this to me before I go insane? NET $105.99, Windows CE Toolkit for Visual Basic 6.0 $199.99, Microsoft Windows CE Toolkit for Visual C++ 6.0 $199.99 etc. NET 2003 Professional $558.99, Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition $544.99, Visual C++.

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Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition Upgrade $359.98 So, there's a steep learning curve just to figure out what version I need? I know some versions allow serial comms some don't.I don't know which. website to look around and there seems to be dozens of variants of VB for sale, grrrrrr.So I decide to buy a copy of VB, I go to the

I'd like a pretty GUI with sensor displays and the ability to send control signals. I need two-way comms between a PC and a BS2. After spending too many hours figuring out that the various free and "easy" programs out there that will interface with the BS2 cannot do what I want them to do, I surrender, I need to learn VB.