Re: Vb.net - Rotating a label (used to replicate a line) OT warning

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"Michel Posseth [MCP]" <MSDN@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:O%238dYgMeJHA.2096@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Why not just draw the lines instead of using a Label Control.
That's what I would do in VB6, and it is what I would do in
the imposter if I ever got around to using it (which is unlikely).

That actually put a smile on my face ( cool one i have to remember
that for any future VB6 <> VB.Net bash ) But just curious are you
telling us that you would favor anny of the other .Net languages
above VB.Net cause in one point you have to switch to stay in
business , or are you near your retirement ? .

Actually I retired from work a few years ago (the best thing I ever did!), but I didn't work as a programmer anyway so as a purely hobbyist programmer there are no pressures on me at all as far as moving from VB6 is concerned. I'm probably a little old fashioned but the only two languages I've ever used in earnest are machine code (both with and without the aid of an assembler) and BASIC. Of the two I used to very much prefer machine code, but that was many years ago when it was possible for one person to have an intimate knowledge of the hardware of a specific machine. It is a lot harder today, with hardware changing at an ever increasing rate, and these days to perform any worthwhile task in machine code it is usually necessary to address the hardware through operating system routines and such things, which I must admit takes the enjoyment out of machine code as far as I am concerned. I gave up machine code many years ago, before I started using PCs (they didn't call my trusty Oric or C64 or Amiga a PC!) so these days I use BASIC on the grounds that if I can't deal with the hardware directly then I might as well go right to the other extreme and use something that allows me to write stuff very quickly and that holds my hand as much as possible by taking me as far away from the hardware as is possible! I didn't ever really fancy the 'middle position' of things like C because I preferred either one extreme or the other (as close as possible to the hardware or as far away from it as possible!) but I expect that if I ever did move to another language it would probably be a variant of C.

Come back Amiga, all is forgiven ;-)

Mike



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