There was a project once apon a time called Envelop Basic, it was very VB
like. It is now freeware, although no longer supported, and available at http://pages.cthome.net/xx/e.htm
Also look into XBasic, also a VB like compiler / IDE, but will require some
re-training if you already know VB. It's not quite as elegant as VB but very
powerful. This is an active project with regular fixes / improvements. http://pages.cthome.net/xx/e.htm
There was once a Visual Basic "Control Creation Edition" available from
Microsoft free. It would let you write Active-X controls I think that it was
VB 5.0.
Also, the .net SDK is availiable from Microsoft for free. It includes the
command line VB.net compiler(also C#). You can download an IDE from http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/ called SharpDevelop which has a
similar interface to Visual Studio.net. It works the best with the C#
compiler but also works with VB.net. Seems like the SDK is a really big
download.
There was once a Visual Basic "Control Creation Edition" available
from Microsoft free. It would let you write Active-X controls I think
that it was VB 5.0.
You can actually write any standard Windows apps with the CCE -- the only
thing it DIDN'T do is let you compile such apps to standalone executables.
You can run your apps from within the editor without restriction, though.
....but it doesn't exist anymore, and there are no search results when
searching both www.microsoft.com and msdn.microsoft.com for 'vbcce.exe'
(which is the filename of the app). I may post it to my web site in
the near future for posterity, as it's freely distributable.
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