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Mac Programming using Visual Basic from Windows.
Good evening. I am going to be taking some courses in Visual Basic.
I presently use a new IMAC computer and no intention of ever going back to PC.
However in course I need to download and learn Visual Basic which is only windows/microsoft based
Does anyone know of a program that is similar to the windows VB that I can use?
Otherwise how would I make the Windows VB work on my MAC, i really do not want to download Windows XP or anyone to work on my MAC, hence reason for switching to leopard and mac.
all suggestions and help is welcome, look forward to your responses.
email me as well please and thank you
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Permalink Reply by Dean on -
Regardless of not wanting XP, the best solution I think, is going to be to install Windows as a virtual machine on your Mac.
This works well and is free http://www.virtualbox.org/
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Permalink Reply by jamesjimmy23 on -
I'd have to agree with Dean. Doing either BootCamp or using a virtual machine would be the easiest. I mean if you're programming for Windows don't you want to have Windows on your computer too?
BTW: It's spelled iMac, not IMAC. You don't need to capitalize it! Thanks.
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Permalink Reply by Gibson on -
why do you mac users have to be so hateful!!!!!
JUST get a cheap computer from geeks.com with windows on it, install vb, learn from their.
otherwise it's virtual machine or new os sir.
xD
basicly what dean and jimmy said.
oh and it's spelled Computer.
XD kidding :) smile!
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Permalink Reply by George Burgess on -
Good idea but I think that eBay is much better for getting cheap computers.
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Permalink Reply by jamesjimmy23 on
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Not really I think personally. If he downloads VirtualBox (which is free) and gets Windows 7 from somewhere like TigerDirect for $99 it would probably be a lot less expensive and easier to manage than having two computers
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Permalink Reply by Lee (lhamil64) on -
You could talk to your schools IT department. They might be able to get you a discounted copy of Windows or maybe loan you a computer or something?
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Permalink Reply by jamesjimmy23 on
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I'm going to school for Computer Science and they actually recommend Mac's since they do some programming on the Mac and also iPhone programming. They said that since we're going to have to use Windows that they worked out a deal so they could get VMWare Fusion and Windows 7 for free (well free to me that is) and install it on our MacBook Pro's. I'd defiantly ask them!
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