Re: VB6 lives?

"Karl E. Peterson" <karl@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Michael C wrote:
They should have used something other than vb6 though.

Why? MSFT is now on the hook to support the runtime for another ten
years. Seems silly to use a less capable tool.
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What's funny (dotNot) is... some of the guys here use Paint Shop Pro....
have been for years. When they released their latest, of course everyone
here wanted an "upgrade"... and got one.

Seems that PSP migrated to dotNet, so of course, a program that used to
"snap to life" now crawls out from under a rock, checks the internet for
updates, displays a hideous nag screen (they had to do *something* to
convince people it was still running and not hung) and changed the entire
UI.... guess what? <g> Not one person here uses the upgrade. They removed it
and re-installed the newest "pre-dotNet" version they could find.

Same goes for the HMI development environments we use here (RSView32 and
WinCC - sidenote.. WinCC is junk, Seimans PLCs are junk - Go Rockwell <g>).

As soon as dotNet is introduced, "useful" functionality, as opposed to
functionality some hotshot dotNetter thinks is important at the time, goes
down the tubes, along with any hint of performance.... but, one thing's for
certain. The apps are "up to date", since, during startup, the user is
forced to endure their "checking for updates" dialog.... actually, it's
probably not checking for updates... it's probably just finding excuses to
take so long to start <g>

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


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