Re: When will MS Stop supporting VB?

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From: Ken Halter (Ken_Halter_at_Use_Sparingly_Hotmail.com)
Date: 09/07/04 

Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 09:28:08 -0700

Paul Clement wrote:
> As opposed to suggesting they use a version of the product that is at a dead end with respect to new
> features and on it's last legs with respect to support?

LOL... who was it that dropped the support? Surely wasn't the "VB
community". Dead end? Again, not our choice.

> It's likely that you don't see VB.NET as a viable choice because you have no need for features that
> are either inadequately supported or not supported at all in Classic Visual Basic.

A bunch of "features" that 99.9% of the population will never use...
remember the statistics describing how many VB devs actually use class
modules?

Couple that with a worthless "Upgrade Wizard" and it spells death to the
language. It's funny that, with minor improvements, that "Wizard" might
actually do some people some good. No interest in the project I suppose.
Seems like adding more tabs to an already cluttered IDE is much more
important than providing support to millions of (soon to be EX) die hard
MS fans. 

-- 
Ken Halter - MS-MVP-VB - http://www.vbsight.com
Please keep all discussions in the groups..

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