Re: Visual Basic 3

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Thanks, I will take you up on the location for downloading the complete
version.

"Mike Williams" <Mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Kevin Provance" <casey@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > If you can show me your license key for your copy, I can upload
> > the necessary files from the bad disk for you (provided it's not Disk
> > 3, because my disk 3 is ruined).
>
> He doesn't actually need a licence key Kevin (although I agree it would be
> nice if he had one"!). Personally, I did have my own copy of VB3 many
years
> ago (on multiple floppy disks) but it ended up getting lost somewhere
after
> I bought the VB5 Learning Edition (and eventually upgraded to the VB6
> Enterprise Edition). For years it never bothered me (obviously because I
had
> VB5 and VB6) but recently I really could have done with a copy of VB3
> recently in order to write some example code in answer to a question on
the
> comp.lang.basic.visual.misc newsgroup. I couldn't find a copy at the time,
> but I have found one since, and I have downloaded the complete version of
> VB3 from a web page. If the OP posts a request for it then I will tell him
> where he can get it from.
>
> Actually, I've never really been "into" this rather strange secrecy that
> Micro$oft has generated around its software. Other vendors (Delphi, for
> example) have been greatly more accommodating and have made early versions
> of their products freely available, obviously in the hope that people
would
> use them and then be persuaded to buy the most recent version because it
was
> so good!). Micro$haft obviously haven't got as much confidence in their
> product as other software companies have! Strange really, especially as
> Visual Basic is built around a version of Basic that Billy Gate$ stole
from
> someone else!
>
> Anyway, if the OP wants to know where he can downlaod all of VB3 then I
will
> tell him where to get it from.
>
> Mike
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