Computing: DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming

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2025.05.05   Windows XP   New tutorial available: Installing Visual FoxPro on Windows XP.

2025.05.02   Languages   New programming tip available: An introduction to Visual COBOL XML Extensions. It includes program samples to import XML into a COBOL program, as well as to export data from a COBOL structure to XML and HTML.

2025.04.24   DOS   Update of my review of Free Lisp development environments for DOS. Added information about the installation of CLISP, Flisp, and PDLisp on MS-DOS 6.22.

2025.04.19   Windows   New tutorial available: Developing Rexx applications on Windows 11. The tutorial is about Regina Rexx, including MySQL access using Rexx/SQL and GUI development using Rexx/DW.

2025.03.30   Languages   New tutorial available: Introduction to assembly macros (FASM 64-bit).

2025.03.17   DOS   New tutorial available: Developing COBOL 74 programs on DOS.

2025.03.16   Languages   New programming tip available: Running a Perl script from within another Perl script.

2025.02.28   DOS   New tutorial available: Installing and running Artek ADA on FreeDOS.

2025.02.24   Windows   New tutorial available: Developing .NET desktop applications (in Visual Studio). It includes details about the creation of a C# WinForms application using the SDK CLI, the creation of C# and VB.NET WinForms applications using Visual Studio, and a longer part about the creation of a C# WPF application using Visual Studio, with details concerning the XAML code used to define the window design.

2025.02.20   DOS   New tutorial available: Exotic programming languages for DOS: NBASM.

2025.02.13   Windows   New tutorial available: Introduction to developing .NET applications. It includes details about the installation of the .NET Core SDK, and the usage of the SDK CLI to build .NET Console projects using C#, VB.NET and F#.

2025.02.12   DOS   New tutorial available: Exotic programming languages for DOS: FAST 2.67.

2025.02.05   Windows   New tutorial available: Installing Visual Studio 2022 on Windows 11.

2025.02.02   Windows   New tutorial available: Installing Visual Studio 2019 on Windows 8.1.

2025.01.26   DOS   New Free Pascal program download available: Directory rename for FreeDOS.

2025.01.25   Languages   New programming tip available: Including own modules in Strawberry Perl.

2025.01.23   Windows   New tutorial available: Text positioning and coloring using ANSI escape sequences on Windows. It includes example code for C, FORTRAN and 64-bit assembly programs, as well as for Windows batch files.

2025.01.18   Programming   New tutorial available: Developing Ruby applications on Windows 10. It includes information about IRB and Ruby command line programming, Ruby CGI and ERB web applications, as well as an introduction to the Ruby on Rails web development framework.

2025.01.06   Windows XP   New tutorial available: MySQL database development on Windows XP. It includes information about the installation and usage of MySQL Server and MySQL GUI Tools, as well as about accessing a MySQL database with PHP and Lazarus/Free Pascal.

2025.01.03   Windows XP   New tutorial available: Installing Python 3 on Windows XP.