Thank goodness for visual basic. I run a really old copy of visual basic - VB5 which is what In use to right small utilities - yet it still works and is very stable - even in Vista! Today I took delivery of my new 4 compact flash card reader from Delkin. Really useful when I am out doing nature work and have filled up several compact flash cards. However, I needed some software to copy them onto my machine - now this may well have come with the more expensive option - instead I wrote my own and at the moment this seems to work a treat.
The great advantage of writing your own software is that you are able to make it bespoked to your needs - in this case this fits into my digital work flow and should save me a lot of time. The proof will come over the next week when I am out shooting for real. Lets hope my great plans work out - if they don't I can easily tweak the software. This is the beauty of being able to write your own software - it also shows that older versions of programming languages are still very useful for everyday needs - such as utilities.
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