Re: Back to VB6 and .NET

On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 11:36:28 -0500, Robert Morley <rmorley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


¤ But let's look at FACTS rather than claims, shall we?
¤
¤ I believe what you're quoting is from the infamous Paul Vick, known
¤ evangelist for VB.NET. Well, how about we look at his quotes again in a
¤ different light, shall we?
¤ http://msmvps.com/blogs/bill/archive/2007/11/02/counting-deck-chairs-on-the-titanic.aspx
¤
¤ As you can see in that article, support has declined sharply for VB.NET.

Well actually no, it indicates support for Visual Basic has declined since the Classic version is
lumped with the .NET version. I would speculate that many of the Classic developers never moved to
the .NET version. But wow, I would have thought that C# would have been the most popular .NET
language. ;-)

Nice distortion of the "FACTS" though. ;-)

¤ But maybe you want an article that shows what both sides have to say.
¤ There's a moderately balanced article here:
¤ http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/Study-Developer-Use-of-Visual-Basic-Plummets/
¤
¤ What I find most telling here is that a 3rd-party research company finds
¤ VB's use is plummeting, but Microsoft just keeps churning out the
¤ rhetoric...we don't believe the facts, we'd rather invent our own story and
¤ pretend like it's true.
¤
¤ On a related note, there's this quote from that same article, which I
¤ absolutely LOVE: "Office 2007 and Windows Vista provide even more
¤ opportunity and flexibility for Visual Basic developers to find creative
¤ solutions to programming challenges,"
¤
¤ Re-stated, that becomes: if you're a Visual Basic developer using Office
¤ 2007 and/or Windows Vista, you'll NEED to find creative solutions because
¤ there are more programming challenges! LOL

You also failed to mentioned that desktop application development is down considerably. Web
application development opens up quite a few different options for developers.


Paul
~~~~
Microsoft MVP (Visual Basic)
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