Mike wrote:
On 1/24/2019 8:39 PM, 😉 Good Guy 😉 wrote:

The second preview of Visual Studio 2019 is now available for
download https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/preview/. This
release contains a number of improvements and additions to the core
experience and different development areas, many of which are a
result of your direct feedback https://aka.ms/devcomm. As always,
you can check out the release notes

Is there anything of the visual basic 6 philosophy left?
I poked around the site for a while.
The first examples are a command line interface!!!!!

Looks like linux.

I didn't find any examples of creating a graphical user interface
graphically.

To create a user interface, all you gotta do is write 10 lines of
magic code to create a button and fill it with parameters.
Sheesh!

What happened to click, drag/drop a button and have everything
you'd ever need to know in a property selection window?

Or did I just look in the wrong place.

What do we use today for rapid development of simple programs with
graphical user interfaces?

Somewhere in the process of defining your project, there was
an option for the program type. Whether it's command line
or you wanted a window at startup. There'd be a file with
a preamble in it, suitable for the purpose.

My problem is, I can't show you an example, because I can't
remember which C: drive that's on :-) And it wouldn't have been
VS2019 either, as generally the newer versions aren't focused
on stuff I want to do. I'm not interested in making "Apps"
or UWPs or anything of the sort. I just want to get stuff
done, not make a software ritual out of it.

Paul