Visual Basic
We have been working with Visual Basic since version 3.0, up through
and including 6.0 and VB.Net. Applications have run ranged
from small single user projects up through multi-user apps support
an entire corporate order entry department.
Sample Visual Basic Applications
 | An app used by an NT Administrator
to search all files in given server looking for certain
characteristics (size, timestamp, etc.) to assist with a virus
cleanup effort. |
| A email
monitoring application started with over 300 pages of source code.
After our cleanup, the application source was reduced to 50 pages
of code through the effective use of functions and subroutines,
removal of hard coded paths, email addresses and links to
production databases. Prior to these changes the application could
not be tested without impacting production. After our changes, the
app could be re-pointed to a new database or server and tested in
minutes. |
| A large catalog
company had a pricing system on a mainframe that was due to be
shut down in 4 months. We were tasked with designing and
developing a new system to do pricing and automatically send
quotes to remote sales offices. The application was designed,
developed and turned over to the client several weeks early and
met all user requirements. This application had a VB front end
that allowed a user to request a quote for a variety of products.
A Remote Command was then executed on a Unix server to initiate a
pricing job. This job used the same pricing engine used by the
mainframe Order Entry application to insure that the quote would
receive the same prices as an actual order. A second VB
application would then retrieve the priced data, output the data
into a data file in a user specified format, then either fax or
email the completed data file or quote document to the end user.
We were responsible for designing the entire application and also
responsible for the much of the VB programming. |
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