VB.Net

[DeltaTech]

I am thinking of upgrading to VBNet and am wondering if any of you there have any opinions. I am on VB5 at the moment, and although I looked at VB6, decided not to switch as I did not see any real dollar to benefit advantage. I also develop in ASP, and wonder if VB.Net would offer any real advantage? Perhaps some of you have switched from VB5/6 can offer an opinion? Much appreciated.

 

[benlinkknilneb]

Hi DeltaTech,

When I took my current job a year ago, we used VB6. In November, the company spent a little money and bought us Visual Studio .NET. It's a small company; I'm the only programmer. I got a couple of books (Microsoft ADO.NET by David Sceppa, and ASP.NET for Dummies) and I've been teaching myself. You'll find that the first couple of weeks, you won't be very productive. VB.NET is VERY different from VB5&6 because of the .NET framework. Once you understand that, you'll be good to go. I wrote my first large app in VB.NET this spring; it was released in May. I haven't tried ASP Programming yet; my next project is to take the Windows app I wrote and make it available from the web.

I would *definitely* say that .NET is worth the money. You'll have a small learning curve, but once you get the hang of it, you'll never want to go back. The advantage in .NET is that you have to deal less with the cryptic parts of computer programming; many things you had to do through API calls are now regular functions in the framework.

HTH
Ben

 

[DeltaTech]

Thanks for your feedback Ben. Much appreciated. Anyone else?