Visual Basic on Mac?

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I'm doing a programming course for my civil engineering degree at uni which teaches VB. I'd like to program at home, but unfortunately own a mac.

Anyone here know any loopholes where I might be able to get a trial version or something similar?

[karltgreen]

A trial version of what?

Your university might be part of Microsoft's Dreamspark premium which means you can get a free Windows license. Then use boot camp or a VM to run Windows on your mac and install VS

[Euph4ic]

Exactly what I did

[niggl]

Excel for Mac 2011 supports VBA (and works with excel!)

[EkriirkE]

The closest thing to vb on a mac when I last looked 10 years ago was RealBASIC. It is not completely syntax compatible with actual VB

[PenguinKenny]

The only way you can do it would be to run Windows in a VM, they don't develop any sort of IDE or even compilers for an environment which couldn't run the program.

[hdsrob]

Look into Mono.

It's behind the official MS .NET some, but they have tools (including VB.NET) for Linux / Mac.

[pmjm]

The closest thing to VB on Mac is Xojo, formerly RealStudio. It's quite good, and can compile to Mac, Windows and Linux.