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Visual Basic 6 IDE recreated in C#

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377 points porterde | 1 comments | 14 Nov 24 21:47 UTC | HN request time: 0.211s | source
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wiseowise ◴[14 Nov 24 22:51 UTC] No.42142078[source]▶
Still don't understand how we went from this to modern GUI toolkits.

It looks and works so intuitively.

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1. xmstr ◴[15 Nov 24 00:38 UTC] No.42142873[source]▶
Microsoft carried this style of layout builder into the original asp.net web-forms in the first couple versions of Visual Studio.NET. If I remember correctly it worked just like the form builder for VB6/MFC-C++, but it's been a while.