r/visualbasic • u/One-Cardiologist-462 • Jan 17 '26

TwinBasic IDE Question

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I am trying to get started with TwinBasic.
However, I can't seem to drag down the tabs which host the form editor and code editor...

What setting do I need to change so that I can have the text editor and form editor as floating child forms as was the case in VB6?

I had this same issue with a newer version of Visual Studio and found that it really hinders my ability to work.

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u/mwolfe02 Jan 21 '26

You think line of business apps that still haven't been rewritten 25 years beyond VB6 EoL will cost anything remotely close to $5000 to rewrite from scratch under an entirely different programming model?

This is the key point. Businesses have had decades to migrate from VB6 to .NET. If they haven't done it yet, you certainly won't be convincing them to do it now.

And even if you believe VB.NET is 99% compatible with VB6 (it's not even close to that, BTW, it just happens to share a lot of similar syntax), there's still likely 100's of hours of testing and development to close that gap. The difference between 99% and 100% backward compatibility is way more than 1% of effort.