r/visualbasic • u/superdmp • May 02 '19

Visual Basic Express

Does anyone know of a safe place to download ( legitimate ) older versions of Visual Basic Express? I'm not looking for the community nonsense from Microsoft; just an older version is fine because I'm not going to be doing anything over the top.

I've had it on old machines, but have upgraded and would like to do some personal projects again.

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u/cuddleslapine VB.Net Intermediate May 02 '19

somewhere I have the websetup installer for 2008 and 2010 express. if you'd like, I can upload them somewhere later this day, when I'm home.

however, keep in mind that you won't be able to activate those, since the activation pages do not exist anymore, but you can find keys online that work, though.

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u/superdmp May 03 '19

Thank you for the offer. I found an old sealed copy on E-Bay. For $50, I just bought that so I don't have any license issues with Microsoft. My intention is to stand it up in a VM as the only software running, so I can code things and then deploy to an IIS host if I have something I want to run. This way I will have it in perpetuity the next time I upgrade (I'm thinking ahead).

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u/[deleted] May 02 '19

What is your objection to the community editions?

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u/superdmp May 02 '19

I don't want to share my code with Microsoft.

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u/sa_sagan VB.Net Master May 02 '19

You don't have to share your code with Microsoft what on Earth are you talking about?

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u/Daakuryu VB.Net Intermediate May 02 '19

pretty sure OP is wearing a 3 piece tinfoil suit with matching hat, shoes and tie.

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u/superdmp May 03 '19

The "community" version gives Microsoft access to the code.

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u/sa_sagan VB.Net Master May 03 '19

No it doesn't. Are you talking about it's integration with github that is 100% completely optional?

What makes you think Microsoft engineers and developers have any interest in your code, even if they could access it?

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u/superdmp May 03 '19

Microsoft and Apple both have a history of integrating 3rd party apps into their future OS releases. I am old enough to remember when Microsoft came out with Dos 6.0 and stole another company's whole-disk compression technology.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '19

No....

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u/[deleted] May 02 '19

So don't

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u/Gerardo-HS May 05 '19

Hi

Visual Basic Express, is not more longer available..

It was replacement by Visual Studio Community.

https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/community/

Regards. Gerardo HS.

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u/RealDavyJones May 05 '19 edited May 05 '19

You can get them from Microsoft:

Visual Studio Older Versions

OP has a solution already, but for anyone else who's interested.

I recently had to find VS 2015 (Solidworks' VSTA 3.0 API only supports 2015, unless you want to use the built-in 2005 VSTA 1.0 version), and found this link. You can download them as .iso files as well as the web installers.

I use the Community version at home and the Professional version at work.