Re: VB6, VB2005, or Something Else?

On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 15:41:25 GMT, "mayayana"
<mayayanaXX1a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
in <FQhPf.1158$sL2.267@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

An interesting addendum to this eternal thread:

Slashdot had a blurb yesterday about a new
book called something like "VB.Net Jumpstart".
It's a book to help guide VB6 developers in the
transition. :)

I also came across a page yesterday
at MSDN, while browsing around for SDK-type
downloads, that was pointing to documentation
about how to use VB6 and VB.Net together.

There's a comfort, albeit somewhat cynical,
in seeing that *5 years* after the intro. of .Net
the sales pitch is still along the lines of, "Hey, have
you thought about switching to .Net yet?". And we
still have a small platoon of .Net salesmen assigned
to harrass the people in the VB groups.

Maybe the most damning evidence against the
alleged success and inevitability of the "sailing of
the ship of .Net" is that - the fact that so many dotNetters
keep hanging around here, trying to convince us all that
we're missing the boat, rather than carrying on with their
own voyage.
At this rate, maybe in another year or two MS will start
offering cash and prizes to people who are willing to
use .Net.


Very interesting observations demonstrating deep thought. I realized
myself that rather than hang out here and vent about what will never be,
that instead I should myself be on with it. So in eight days, I've
converted a SQL Server database to PostgreSQL and made my ASP work using
Postgres OLEDB. I then found a web host who would install PostgreSQL
OLEDB on their W2K3 server which would give me remote access. But then
I said -self- you've come this far - why not go all the way. So on the
eighth day I set up a Linux server and I'm now converting all the
VBScript to PHP (learning it as I go). So give me another week or two
and I should have three data driven web sites (one in .NET that doesn't
work) and two in ASP/SQL Server running on Apache web servers using PHP
scripting and a PostgreSQL backend.

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