Visual Basic

This likely sounds strange, but! I have just installed Visual Basic 2008,
about the third time I have installed a Microsoft Basic language in Windows.
There are some tasks that I'd like to get done without the bother of messing
with windows so I really just want to do console applications for the time
being. Back in the old days one had a terminal window in which he did basic
programming and saw in that terminal window what the program was doing and
one could print to that terminal window.

Is this use of the Basic programming language still possible and if so where
would I discover just how to do that??? Thanks.

"WindyGeorge" <> wrote in message
news:17A58658-F3A0-4BEB-80E6-...
> This likely sounds strange, but! I have just installed Visual Basic 2008,
> about the third time I have installed a Microsoft Basic language in
> Windows.
> There are some tasks that I'd like to get done without the bother of
> messing
> with windows so I really just want to do console applications for the time
> being. Back in the old days one had a terminal window in which he did
> basic
> programming and saw in that terminal window what the program was doing and
> one could print to that terminal window.
>
> Is this use of the Basic programming language still possible and if so
> where
> would I discover just how to do that??? Thanks.

It's called a .NET Windows Console Application. If the version of VB.NET
that you have installed doesn't allow you to create a Console Application
from its selected project template, then you might be able to find a
template for a Console Application you can work from using that code, use
Google.

Also, this is not a VB.NET programmers newsgroup. There are VB.NET
newsgroups at msnews.Micorsoft.com

George Wrote:

Thanks Mr. Arnold I shall persue that avenue as soon as my login is working
properly and I shall have to discover if VB.net is installed on my system as
a result of installing Visual Studio 2008. Attempting to sign on to a Visual
Basic site trashed my sign on ability and so I tried another approach. My
sign on may be working properly now, may be?



"Mr. Arnold" wrote:

>
> "WindyGeorge" <> wrote in message
> news:17A58658-F3A0-4BEB-80E6-...
> > This likely sounds strange, but! I have just installed Visual Basic 2008,
> > about the third time I have installed a Microsoft Basic language in
> > Windows.
> > There are some tasks that I'd like to get done without the bother of
> > messing
> > with windows so I really just want to do console applications for the time
> > being. Back in the old days one had a terminal window in which he did
> > basic
> > programming and saw in that terminal window what the program was doing and
> > one could print to that terminal window.
> >
> > Is this use of the Basic programming language still possible and if so
> > where
> > would I discover just how to do that??? Thanks.
>
> It's called a .NET Windows Console Application. If the version of VB.NET
> that you have installed doesn't allow you to create a Console Application
> from its selected project template, then you might be able to find a
> template for a Console Application you can work from using that code, use
> Google.
>
> Also, this is not a VB.NET programmers newsgroup. There are VB.NET
> newsgroups at msnews.Micorsoft.com
>
>

"WindyGeorge" <> wrote in message
news:B456CB19-4FF3-4480-90A5-...
> George Wrote:
>
> Thanks Mr. Arnold I shall persue that avenue as soon as my login is
> working
> properly and I shall have to discover if VB.net is installed on my system
> as
> a result of installing Visual Studio 2008. Attempting to sign on to a
> Visual
> Basic site trashed my sign on ability and so I tried another approach. My
> sign on may be working properly now, may be?
>
>

What do you mean, "sign on to a Visual Basic site"? If you installed Visual
Studio 2008, the .NET framework will be installed on your machine.

>
> "Mr. Arnold" wrote:
>
>>
>> "WindyGeorge" <> wrote in message
>> news:17A58658-F3A0-4BEB-80E6-...
>> > This likely sounds strange, but! I have just installed Visual Basic
>> > 2008,
>> > about the third time I have installed a Microsoft Basic language in
>> > Windows.
>> > There are some tasks that I'd like to get done without the bother of
>> > messing
>> > with windows so I really just want to do console applications for the
>> > time
>> > being. Back in the old days one had a terminal window in which he did
>> > basic
>> > programming and saw in that terminal window what the program was doing
>> > and
>> > one could print to that terminal window.
>> >
>> > Is this use of the Basic programming language still possible and if so
>> > where
>> > would I discover just how to do that??? Thanks.
>>
>> It's called a .NET Windows Console Application. If the version of VB.NET
>> that you have installed doesn't allow you to create a Console Application
>> from its selected project template, then you might be able to find a
>> template for a Console Application you can work from using that code, use
>> Google.
>>
>> Also, this is not a VB.NET programmers newsgroup. There are VB.NET
>> newsgroups at msnews.Micorsoft.com
>>
>>