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[fblair]

I have VB.Net that is several years old. There is now a VB Express edition and v5 and 6. What is the sequence of products and what is the latest?

thanks,
fred

 

[strongm]

VB5
VB6
VB.NET (not actually VB, BTW)
VB 2005 (all versions) (still not actually VB, BTW)

 

[fblair]

With VB.net and VB 2995, what do you mean that they are not really VB?

 

[strongm]

I mean that they are not actually Visual Basic. The last version of Visual Basic was v6.

VB.NET (and VB 2005, which is just the most recent version of VB.NET) is a completely new, different language which was saddled with strong syntactic similarities to Visual Basic in the optimistic hope that VB programmers woud be fooled into thinking it was actually VB. Which it isn't.

That's not to say it isn't a good language. It is. It just isn't VB.

 

[BobRodes]

<in the optimistic hope that VB programmers woud be fooled into thinking it was actually VB. Which it isn't.

Or to put that in Microsoft evangelspeak: "with the idea that VB programmers will be able to leverage the syntactical similarity with VB6 to reduce the .Net learning curve." Which they probably can't.

 

[dilettante]

It's funny in a way.

I still see a few die-hard QBasic/QuickBasic programmers who reject VB5&6 to this day because "It's too object oriented and I just don't get it." Of course they're the first to admit they just plink around with programming on a lightweight recreational level.

 

[BobRodes]

Well, there's not a hell of a lot of QBasic work left out there, after all. I did my last QBasic app maybe 10 years ago, and it was ancient then.