{"id":33983,"date":"2005-09-30T10:00:10","date_gmt":"2005-09-30T10:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2005\/09\/30\/but-i-have-visual-basic-professional\/"},"modified":"2005-09-30T10:00:10","modified_gmt":"2005-09-30T10:00:10","slug":"but-i-have-visual-basic-professional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20050930-10\/?p=33983","title":{"rendered":"But I have Visual Basic Professional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 1995, I was participating in a chat room on MSN on the subject of device driver development. One of the people in the chat room asked, &#8220;Can I write a device driver in Visual Basic?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> I replied, &#8220;Windows&nbsp;95 device drivers are typically written in low-level languages such as C or even assembly language.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p> Undaunted, the person clarified: &#8220;But I have Visual Basic <strong>Professional<\/strong>.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 1995, I was participating in a chat room on MSN on the subject of device driver development. One of the people in the chat room asked, &#8220;Can I write a device driver in Visual Basic?&#8221; I replied, &#8220;Windows&nbsp;95 device drivers are typically written in low-level languages such as C or even assembly language.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-33983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-history"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Back in 1995, I was participating in a chat room on MSN on the subject of device driver development. One of the people in the chat room asked, &#8220;Can I write a device driver in Visual Basic?&#8221; I replied, &#8220;Windows&nbsp;95 device drivers are typically written in low-level languages such as C or even assembly language.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}