Visual Basic
Programming languageWikipedia
52
MENTIONS
41
EPISODES
36
PODCASTS
Search complete. 52 mentions across 41 episodes found for "Visual Basic".
Sep 11, 2026
Ola StrandbergGUEST
There was a legendary article called No Silver Bullet, which essentially states that there will never be a development tool that can slay the werewolf of building software completely.
Ola StrandbergGUEST
And back when I was active Visual Basic was launched, which was a tool like the first graphical programming environment for end users.
Ola StrandbergGUEST
You could literally draw a screen and assign what happened when you click those buttons, etc.
Ola StrandbergGUEST
it was positioned as, now you don't need developers anymore.
Ted PavlicHOST
They've not gone through the vetting process yet.
Ted PavlicHOST
And so Excel, people who know how to use Visual Basic for applications in Excel are a hot commodity for some of these government groups because those government groups, that's the only thing they can use.
Ted PavlicHOST
And so when you happen to be working with a customer or working on a team that has those restrictions, then knowing how to do this, and I know this seems kind of like, oh, why am I learning how to use spreadsheets? Then knowing how to model your system in this tool can be very valuable.
Ted PavlicHOST
It also helps people who don't know how to use the tool to make sense of what you did because they know how to use the spreadsheet.
Vlad RomanovHOST
They do have conversion tools, but then as you start doing the assessment, you start realizing, well, we have these very old controllers that are limited on the amount of tags.
Vlad RomanovHOST
So we have written some visual basic scripts to pass data for that specific SCADA application that no one has documented.
Vlad RomanovHOST
And so now the conversion tool does not take into account any visual basic scripts whatsoever.
Vlad RomanovHOST
Then you're going to have to manually come in and convert all of them.
Vlad RomanovHOST
And wait, now there's more because the PLCs will no longer support the connection to the new factory talk view SC type of terminals and servers.
Carl FranklinHOST
You know, we, I just did tech support, but it was called quick pack scientific software.
Carl FranklinHOST
And so in that was a bunch of assembly language, you know, things, calls that you could call from basic, from Quick Basic, Basic 7 PDS, and even Visual Basic.
Carl FranklinHOST
that did all these kinds of things yes and i wondered even back then why do you need all this if you have the fundamentals and it's kind of like you know why do you need a database if you can open and read and write files right it's these are layers of abstraction that help you as a non-programmer maybe a scientist that dabbles in programming do stuff easily
Jeffrey SachsGUEST
well it's not just about the layers of abstraction although that can be useful as well it's also about um the limitations that you have doing math on a computer and still doing things correctly
Carl FranklinHOST
So you remind me of a product that when I was at Crescent Software we sold.
Carl FranklinHOST
I didn't write it, you know, we, it w- I just did tech support, but it was called QuickPak Scientific, and so in that was a bunch of assembly language, m- m- you know, things, uh, calls that you could call from Basic, from Quick Basic, Basic seven PDS, and even Visual Basic that did all these kinds of things.
Jeffrey SaxGUEST
Yes.
Carl FranklinHOST
And I wondered even back then, why do you need all this if you have the fundamentals? And it's kind of like, you know, why do you need a database if you can open f- and read and write files? [laughing] Right? It's-
Carl FranklinHOST
But it was called QuickPack Scientific.
Carl FranklinHOST
And so in that was a bunch of assembly language things, calls that you could call from basic, from Quick Basic, Basic 7 PDS, and even Visual Basic.
Carl FranklinHOST
that did all these kinds of things yes and i wondered even back then why do you need all this if you have the fundamentals and it's kind of like you know why do you need a database if you can open and read and write files right it's these are layers of abstraction that help you as a non-programmer maybe a scientist that dabbles in programming do stuff easily
Jeffrey SachsGUEST
well it's not just about the layers of abstraction although that can be useful as well it's also about the limitations that you have doing math on a computer.
![[Dev]olution](https://particle.news/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,width=128/https://cdn.particle.pro/url/media/7e33e3db-fcc5-58eb-a77f-9b7c5c466bc5/39a026b401bed59e7db5213b0033f9b346c6805d6aa31df79245026157078a44)
John CrickettGUEST
Sometimes it was, you know, I'm gonna clone this tool then figure out, how do I build it faster for the fairly specific bit? 'Cause I wanna, you know, learn about optimizing code perhaps, or I wanna learn this faster programming language.
John CrickettGUEST
So I'd done several of these projects time and time again over the last 30 years to learn either Visual Basic or PHP or C or C++ or Java or C# or Rust or Go.
John CrickettGUEST
So that's what it was about.
John CrickettGUEST
It was about helping with that very specific bit of learning a programming language with a real project, and then learning some programming techniques within the framework of a real project, and actually finishing a project.
Gerald AugerHOST
That way when they try to install Screen Connect, they can't, and then the, the threat actor moves on to the next person 'cause that's a dead end.
Gerald AugerHOST
Um, EDR, endpoint detection and response, watching Visual Basic script shells running where the file names are 1.vbs, 2.vbs, 3.vbs, 4.vbs. Ah, ah, ah.
Gerald AugerHOST
It's the Count from Sesame Street.
Gerald AugerHOST
And then you choose your own adventure after 4.vbs with crypto miners, back doors, persistence mechanisms, all the things.
Anthony SalcitoGUEST
Uh, that...
Anthony SalcitoGUEST
You know, I, when I was in school, Visual Basic was considered a requirement of the hottest and latest thing.
Anthony SalcitoGUEST
Um, very quickly-
Keith ShawHOST
Yeah
Anthony SalcitoGUEST
... into my career, Visual Basic wasn't a thing any longer.
Anthony SalcitoGUEST
Um, and that's true now.
Anthony SalcitoGUEST
Python may seem like the thing that's there.
Darko FabijanGUEST
Sure, sure.
Darko FabijanGUEST
So essentially, I'm maybe like 11, 12 years old, like Visual Basic and, you know, Windows 3.1195. And then went into Linux.
Darko FabijanGUEST
Linux was a huge interest.
Darko FabijanGUEST
It was like, you know, maybe in 96, 97.
31 more episodes mention Visual Basic.
Create an account to see the whole feed, search across every transcript, and follow the entities you care about.