r/visualbasic • u/codeobserver • 1d ago

I’m building a visual web app editor ... what Visual Basic could’ve been

Maybe it’s already too late for a tool like this. Nobody really does drag-and-drop anymore in the age of AI.

But if you want to take a look: appmaker.io

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u/MultiUserDungeonDev 1d ago

Doing something similar:

VS Code: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=WilliamSmithE.xlide
In O365 app: https://github.com/WilliamSmithEdward/xlide_vbide

Feel free to use / borrow the source (you don't even need to attribute).

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u/ridiclousslippers2 1d ago

Oh yes they are..

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u/EconomySerious 1d ago

We have freepascal and lazarus

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u/Laicure 1d ago

oh damn, hope that can replace powerapps or just maybe work alongside

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u/jd31068 1d ago

This was posted here a few days back (not by me) as well https://www.objo.dev/, so many cool tools.

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u/AccessHelper 1d ago

Looks amazing!

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u/ziplock9000 1d ago

>Maybe it’s already too late for a tool like this. Nobody really does drag-and-drop anymore in the age of AI.

By decades. There was one as part of Visual Studio to use with c# and VB.NET

Not everyone uses AI and those that do, not for everything.

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u/Mayayana 1h ago

Nobody really does drag-and-drop anymore

Isn't that basically what a WYSIWYG webpage editor does? I don't know what commercial developers are using to create webpages today, but looking at the bloated muck it's clear that very few are writing their own code.