

The source code of MS Small Basic is written in C#, but I converted a copy of it to VB.NET and uses it to create sVB. SVB is an open source project, that is published as a GitHub repo. You can also open any sample folder in Windows Explorer, right-click any ".sb" file, choose "open with" from the context menu, and choose sVB.exe as the default program to open ".sb" files.Īfter that you can just double-click any ".sb" file to open it in sVB. Note that closing the main form will close the program. Click the "Run" button from the toolbar (or hit F5 from keyboard) to run the program.

This will close the dialog and open the form in the designer. Select any ".xaml" file from the folder and click the "Open" button.In the "open file" dialog, navigate to the "sVB\Samples" folder and open the sample folder you want.Right-click the form designer and click "Open" from the context menu, or click the "Open Existing Form" icon on the toolbar, or press the Ctrl+O shortcut from the keyboard.To try any sample, follow these instructions: The sVB folder contains a samples folder that contains various projects. This is a 750 pages books, that contains the full details about the sVB IDE, syntax, and class library with full examples and helpful notes about the projects you can find in the sVB samples folder. You can read this file also in the root folder of the sVB repo. When you install sVB, you will find a sVB docs.pdffile in its directory, and you will find a shortcut for it in the Small Visual Basic folder in the start menu, and another one on the desktop. Open the folder and double-click "sVB.exe". You will have a folder with the same name where you unzipped the file. If you don't have it on your PC, download and install it. To get older versions, go to the Releases page, navigate to the version you want, expand the Assets list at the bottom of the page, and download the ZIP file, and follow these instructions: NET framework 4.8, thee estup will ask you to download it, so you should accept and install it. You can accept default options and click next in each setup page, and wait for the setup to finish. To install sVB, Unzip the downlaoded file and run the setup.exe from the the sVB inataller folder. You can download the installer from the Releases page or from visualstudio marketplace Starting from v2.8.1, sVB has an installer, that creates a startup menu and desktop shortcuts for sVB and its book. It is meant to be easier and more powerful at the same time, to introduce programming basics to kids and beginners of any age, provided that they can use the English keyboard on the Windows operating system. Mohammad Hamdy as an evolved version of Microsoft Small Basic (SB). Small Visual Basic (sVB) is an educational programming language, created by Eng.
