Re: vb6 -v- Net!

On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 04:59:40 +1100, "Aalaan" <veryinvalid@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

¤ In one or two sentences, can regulars explain concisely to this novice why
¤ vb.Net is inferior to vb6, rather than tackle the wider issues such as
¤ ongoing support possibly being removed *again*, what they think of M$oft
¤ etc. I am not paying devil's advocate. After about 650 hours getting to know
¤ vb6, I am a very firm enthusiast! But I want to know whether my time would
¤ be better spent learning .Net. I'm sure I know the opinions of most here,
¤ but I would like concrete reasons that just focus on usability and not
¤ previous wasted development years etc.
¤
¤ I already have an excellent summary from one regular (YKWYA), but would like
¤ to know what the rest of you think. Thanks in advance.
¤

I still work in both environments and the only significant disadvantages I've encountered with
Visual Basic.NET are:

1) Learning the Framework and new language features (which of course can be overcome)
2) Desktop apps on average are not as fast
3) Distribution of the .NET Framework


Paul
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Microsoft MVP (Visual Basic)
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