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| Thread ID: 41593 | 2004-01-15 22:54:00 | MS Visual Basic product types?? | Eorr (2788) | Press F1 |
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| 207752 | 2004-01-15 22:54:00 | Hi any experienced Visual Basic people. I've been tinkling with Basic for years and still have Version 4 installed on my XP system - time for an upgrade, but I can't make sense of the products available. VB 4 has been fine for what I need, but the lingo seems to have changed over the years. What product should I be looking for now? | Eorr (2788) | ||
| 207753 | 2004-01-15 23:32:00 | Really depends on what you want to achieve. Visual Basic 6 was the last of the line before .NET. If you want to get with the lastest then it would be VB.NET but I think .NET only supports Win2000, XP etc i.e. not win9x. VB6 is still fine to write utilities etc for Windows. |
Dolby Digital (160) | ||
| 207754 | 2004-01-16 08:41:00 | Stay away from .net, believe me visual basic isn't that great in the first place but .net REALLY wrecks it. It is *the* definition of 'OO-whore' (which isn't a good thing...) Stick to VB6, i used it for school and have written a few good applications in it. It's probably the best for normal uses... If you've got used to programming VB so much, i would recommend taking a step up in the language ladder... maybe C++ or Delphi. I always say this, but BASIC teaches bad programming habbits... try something else, it's a good challenge ;) - David |
DangerousDave (697) | ||
| 207755 | 2004-01-16 08:43:00 | i have vb.nt 2003 and i think it is o.k, but i had never uses any other vb bfore, |
ilikelinux (1418) | ||
| 207756 | 2004-01-18 20:31:00 | "If you've got used to programming VB so much, i would recommend taking a step up in the language ladder... maybe C++ or Delphi. I always say this, but BASIC teaches bad programming habbits... try something else, it's a good challenge " Yeah, fair comment. I've heard this before, but the main reason I go for VB is that the majority of the programming I do is simply Excel or Word macro stuff, mostly MS Access programming. AutoCAD uses VB too - so I just go with the flow. Our office is basically dictated to by the market trend, like it or not. MS apps are the standard in our line of business it seems. But otherwise I'd give C++ a go. The only comment I'd make in addition is that in my limited experience I've found Borland stuff not as intuitive to use as MS. Obviously this is an issue for the 'part-timer' programmers like me who can't commit all their time to it. Think I'll try to find a VB6 version somewhere. Thanks for comments - much appreciated. |
Eorr (2788) | ||
| 207757 | 2004-01-18 21:36:00 | >>Our office is basically dictated to by the market trend, like it or not. There used to be saying "No one got sacked for buying IBM" now its "No one got sacked for buying Microsoft". I wonder who will be the next Microsoft? |
Dolby Digital (160) | ||
| 207758 | 2004-01-18 22:37:00 | Another option might be C#. I haven't actually used it but since its a MS language it should be well supported by their products and it will be nicer than VB since its basically Java with a couple of improvements. | bmason (508) | ||
| 207759 | 2004-01-18 23:20:00 | >>Another option might be C#. Correct me if I am wrong, but C# was designed by the guy that designed Delphi! |
Dolby Digital (160) | ||
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