Timeline of Visual Basic

I got this article from wikipedia and it did amazed me.

• Project 'Thunder' was initiated
• Visual Basic 1.0 (May 1991) was released for Windows at the Comdex/Windows World trade show in Atlanta, Georgia.

Visual Basic for MS-DOS

• Visual Basic 1.0 for DOS was released in September 1992. The language itself was not quite compatible with Visual Basic for Windows, as it was actually the next version of Microsoft's DOS-based BASIC compilers, QuickBasic and BASIC Professional Development System. The interface was textual, using extended ASCII characters to simulate the appearance of a GUI.
• Visual Basic 2.0 was released in November 1992. The programming environment was easier to use, and its speed was improved. Notably, forms became instantiable objects, thus laying the foundational concepts of class modules as were later offered in VB4.
• Visual Basic 3.0 was released in the summer of 1993 and came in Standard and Professional versions. VB3 included version 1.1 of the Microsoft Jet Database Engine that could read and write Jet (or Access) 1.x databases.
• Visual Basic 4.0 (August 1995) was the first version that could create 32-bit as well as 16-bit Windows programs. It also introduced the ability to write non-GUI classes in Visual Basic.
• With version 5.0 (February 1997), Microsoft released Visual Basic exclusively for 32-bit versions of Windows. Programmers who preferred to write 16-bit programs were able to import programs written in Visual Basic 4.0 to Visual Basic 5.0, and Visual Basic 5.0 programs can easily be converted with Visual Basic 4.0. Visual Basic 5.0 also introduced the ability to create custom user controls, as well as the ability to compile to native Windows executable code, speeding up calculation-intensive code execution.
• Visual Basic 6.0 (Mid 1998) improved in a number of areas, including the ability to create web-based applications. VB6 is currently scheduled to enter Microsoft's "non-supported phase" starting March 2008.
• Mainstream Support for Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 ended on March 31, 2005. Extended support will end in March 2008. In response, the Visual Basic user community expressed its grave concern and lobbied users to sign a petition to keep the product alive. Microsoft has so far refused to change their position on the matter. Ironically, around this time, it was exposed that Microsoft's new anti-spyware offering, Microsoft AntiSpyware (part of the GIANT Company Software purchase), was coded in Visual Basic 6.0. Windows Defender Beta 2 was rewritten as C++/CLI code.^"

BMC Remedy Action Request System

For people in the IT world in the Philippines, only some of them knew what the BMC Remedy Action Request System is. Well, if you ask me how I got to know about it; its because I am using it or rather I am the remedy administrator in our office. So what is Remedy ARS? it is a software created to be used by the help desk / service desk in order to keep track of problems incurred by the company in terms of the IT - SW or HW used, like hardware assets or program problems in different softwares used by the company. Tickets or Trouble Tickets are created once there is a problem occurred with the use of the different technology items, and this tickets are supposed to be resolved on a given time with regards to the service level agreements as per items found in the tickets. This system also follows the ITIL steps and can also be integrated with SAP. Customizing the looks of the forms and consoles of the Remedy ARS is no sweat since it is drag and drop as for the codes, they are called active links that will make the form function well, all you need to know is a little programming logic and extensive patience for this but this is a good software especially for those who wanted to keep track of trouble reports every now and then. for more info visit www.bmc.com