Which 'Visual' Microsoft Product did you use first?

Joe Woodbury

Visual Studio 1.0. We had to use a portable CD drive to install it and it took hours. (Compared to the disaster of Microsoft C 7.0, it was beyond wonderful.)

PIEBALDconsult

I was given a copy of VB2, but I couldn't figure it out. So Visual C# Standard (2002) is the first I actually used.

Ravi Bhavnani

Visual C++ 1.5. /ravi

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Dave Kreskowiak

Yes, I did. I remember those days. I remember some of the MSJ articles, like making your own Button control, lists, scroll bar handling, message pumps, .... All the basic stuff we take for granted under .NET.

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Septimus Hedgehog

I first touched Delphi when it was first released. I wish I kept in touch with it. If I were to meet it again I'd look on it as an adult meeting a friend I last saw in distant childhood, recalling early days but not recognising the face. :) The only thing that puts me off Delphi now is that it's owned by Embarcadero and they've more or less priced it out of contention. There's more to be made from VS. It's a pity. Like Turbo Pascal, it was better when it was owned by Borland. Then they become Inprise (stoopid a name as there ever was). When Hejlsberg left to go to MS we sort of never looked back.

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Anna Jayne Metcalfe

Same here.

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Eaverae

Microsoft Visual Basic 5 I think.

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Magnamus

I skipped VB1 & 2, went straight to 3!

Lost User

Microsoft C ver 5

RefugeeFromSlashDot

Visual Basic 1.0

KLPounds

Technically, Visual FoxPro 3 was my first "Visual" Product. But never accomplished anything particularly useful. I was a kid and it turned out to be more of an expensive "test drive" for one of my dad's projects. Neither of us could figure out how to do seemingly mundane things with it so it was a short lived thing. Not really sure if that counts. VBA in Access was where I cut my teeth at coding something useful. Started out as tweaking macros but soon moved up to custom forms and string manipulation. still not sure if that counts. But it was the first time in which I surpassed my dad at using a programming platform. Otherwise, Office 2003 era VBA & VB6 was my first Professional use of a "Visual" product.

Mark H2

Horses for courses my good man.

ian dennis 0

Me too :)

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Mine was VB1.0 from a floppy from a magazine, quickly followed by 2.0 and 3.0.