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No. PB has nothing to do with .NET ... it is just a language like C. :)

I understand. When I wrote ".Net-like API on top of Win32", I meant that it was possible to write GUI apps in PB without the Visual Designer by calling its API directly.

I'll experiment and see how it goes. Thanks all.

Thanks for the input. So PB provides a .Net-like API on top of Win32, and the Visual Designer is just an easier way to draw GUIs than calling the PB API directly.

You mean going back to the Windows API itself à la Petzold?

Thanks for the info. In the Download section, when I read "Registered users area: To access your personal account and download the full versions of PureBasic click here", I figured no trialware was available (clicked: "The login is the e-mail you used when you registered PureBasic.").

And when I ...

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I'm looking for an easy way to write Win32 applications in the case where .Net is a bit big and slow.

I found Freebasic a bit lacking (especially in documentation) and I don't like the way Powerbasic is managed (both the company and the general aggressive tone in the forum).

So I'd like to ...

That's what I feared :-/ Thanks for the input.

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Apparently , VB.Net requires .Net 4 to be able to write a shell extension like 7Zip does .

Since my users might have older releases of the .Net framework, and it's a small app with not much GUI involved, I'm willing to check alternative BASICs like PureBasic, PowerBasic, etc.

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Since this thread dates back to 2008, I think it'd be useful to update the FAQ to provide a fair comparison between PureBasic and FreeBasic so that users can make an educated decision.

Thanks everyone.

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I'd like to write a small Windows GUI application in Purebasic. I didn't see the answer in the FAQ: Am I correct in guessing that PureBasic is a text-based language, and if I want to write a Windows application, I'll need to call the Win32 API, eg. CreateWindow(), etc.?

Thank you.

Too bad. Thanks for the quick reply.

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I'd like to use a BASIC language to write snippets to run on the Rowetel telephony servers , which use an MMU-less Blackfin processor and the µcLinux Linux distribution.

For those of you using PureBasic extensively on Linux, do you know if PB programs will compile and run on that type of ...