Re: Is VB.NET Stable??

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Im my opinion, VB.Net 2005, no. I've had several situations where I was
doing forms development, made a simple change to the form and thereafter
found I could no longer open the form in design view. I could access the
code, but not the form layout. In one case it took me well over a week to
recreate the form. Needless to say I was some p... off. This occured most
frequently, I thought, when I made changes to the datasets being used by the
form without removing the controls bound to the old data first.
I consider Vs2005 to be no better than a beta product.
In theory the features are fine. In practice its another story. The problem
above has not happened lately and I keep my fingers crossed.
The configuration file XML format has changed between 2003 and 2005, which
is a pain, although I found that you can use the old appsettings - add key
tags in 2005 as it was in 2005. You can not save your application change
application scope settings, you can more easily change user scope settings.
They 'improved' the control over the application by being able to easily add
applicationsettings, but its difficut to debug the most important of all,
the unhandledexception event.
Nonetheless I use it for development because I don't want to be using a
product that is near the end of its support lifecycle, hoping that the
inevitable service packs will resolve the reliability problems.
What I do like is the easier deployment if you write everything in managed
code and getting away from dll hell.
Also, if you use third party components, make sure to test every single one
of them before you commit. I was using a third party telephony component
with Vs2005 VB.NET that I ad been using for years in VB6 and found that one
of the most important ones in VB net 2005 could not be added to a form and
that the next release is not yet scheduled. So I'm up the proverbial creek
without a paddle and learned not to assume that because the advertising said
it was compatible, it ain't necessarely so. Unfortunately its buyer beware!

Bob


"Tony Van" <ton-jud-ann@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm using Version 8, learning the language and writing some code.

It seems every session, especially when programming Crystal Reports, the
program stutters and sends a message off to Microsoft. Sometimes I've
lost code, other times the system sets off on a build that never finishes.
Very time consuming and unproductive.

I am alone in this? I like VB.NET but I'm worried about losing important
stuff.



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