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could one use visual basic (censor: i'm an idiot; please ignore me) to compile the latest release?
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Umm, no.
MQ is written in Visual C++ .NET. It has been successfully regressed to Visual C++ 6.0 by a number of people. There is some work going on to port it to Dev-C++, but that is slow going right now, as it is more of an exercise than a serious development branch.
visual basic (censor: i'm an idiot; please ignore me) is a completely different language. It is possible to tie together VB and VC code; I've known quite a few people who write the GUI in visual basic (censor: i'm an idiot; please ignore me) and the actual engine/kernel/etc. in Visual C. But you can't take a VC program, plug it into the VB compiler, and expect it to work. At best your VB program would look for VC and give you an error message when it couldn't find it.
MQ is written in Visual C++ .NET. It has been successfully regressed to Visual C++ 6.0 by a number of people. There is some work going on to port it to Dev-C++, but that is slow going right now, as it is more of an exercise than a serious development branch.
visual basic (censor: i'm an idiot; please ignore me) is a completely different language. It is possible to tie together VB and VC code; I've known quite a few people who write the GUI in visual basic (censor: i'm an idiot; please ignore me) and the actual engine/kernel/etc. in Visual C. But you can't take a VC program, plug it into the VB compiler, and expect it to work. At best your VB program would look for VC and give you an error message when it couldn't find it.