Re: Microsoft MVPs Say They Want Old VB Back
From: Andre Kaufmann (_spamx_andre.kaufmann_at_no-spam_t-online.de)
Date: 03/13/05
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Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 12:20:21 +0100
"CMM" <CMM@discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:EA74DE91-907E-4FF9-B591-886509B84160@microsoft.com...
> just fyi: Accessing the registry from VB.Classic is done exactly the same way
> it's done in C++: using the RegOpen/Query/Set/Close API's.... though
> VB.Classic does have a rather useless built-in Get/WriteAppSetting that
> provides easy access to a VB/VBA specific subkey in the registry.
>
Thanx for the info.
> And that brings me to this point: I agree with you about the power of the
> framework... and after an initial learning curve (which isn't as bad as it
> first seems), VB.NET is as RAD as VB6. I think a lot of old-school
> programmers are under the mistaken impression that VB.NET has lost ALL of
> VB.Classic's classic B.A.S.I.C. constructs. All one need do is look at the
> Microsoft.VisualBasic namespace and see that they're pretty much all there
> and still as productive. For instance, you don't need to use
> String.Substring() if you don't want to... in fact
> Microsoft.VisualBasic.Left/Right/Mid is much more powerful (in that it
> doesn't throw exceptions if the integer value passed is bigger than the
> string). Left("mystring", 100) will return "mystring" instead of an exception.
>
And this namespace may be used by the other .NET languages too :-).
>
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Andre
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