Re: MS, Enough is Enough!

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Well it is a different language

That's for sure!

The upside is that us old gits will soon be worth serious bucks
- you want your bug fixed - price $10,000
- you want your system re-written - price $500,000 (plus risk)

<g> I'm too tired to take on more work like this...

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Bob Comer





"J French" <erewhon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Tue, 7 Mar 2006 10:01:47 -0500, "Robert Comer"
<bobcomer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I agree they dumped VB pretty poorly and all that but this statement
above
is just ludicrous. You basically have no idea of the differences between
.net and vb6 so seam to think because you don't know of them they don't
exist. Dotnet is a whole level above vb6, there is no question about
that.

A whole level above, not from my POV. (The POV of a manager/developer
with
a lot of VB5 and VB6 apps to manage)

Why doesn't everyone stop whinging are get together and write a better
import. There's no reason it shouldn't be possible to import a VB6 app
into .net and have it run pretty much straight off.

A better question is why wont Microsoft write a better import. I
personally
don't think a better import can be done without a lot of changes to
VB2005.
(.NET)

Well it is a different language

The upside is that us old gits will soon be worth serious bucks
- you want your bug fixed - price $10,000
- you want your system re-written - price $500,000 (plus risk)

The neat thing is that VB.Not.Yet is sufficiently 'advanced' to turn
off potential new entries
- restricting the players

And those who get through the 'Gate' will have no idea about VB
Classic' code.

A very nice thought


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