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VB6 to VB.Net trend?
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Well, it's a lot bigger change than VB5 to VB6 was!
People are all over the map in their efforts to migrate. I'd guess many bigger long-time VB6 shops are still looking at .Net and trying to map a strategy for when they have some $$ again. Others are much further along, and still others are all .Net today.
I suspect the difference is mostly due to organization size and legacy application suite size. In both cases smaller may mean more flexibility and thus quicker to make the move.
I hear a lot about shops going from VB6 to C#, skipping VB.Net. I wonder how common that really is - or does it just sell newspapers?
People are all over the map in their efforts to migrate. I'd guess many bigger long-time VB6 shops are still looking at .Net and trying to map a strategy for when they have some $$ again. Others are much further along, and still others are all .Net today.
I suspect the difference is mostly due to organization size and legacy application suite size. In both cases smaller may mean more flexibility and thus quicker to make the move.
I hear a lot about shops going from VB6 to C#, skipping VB.Net. I wonder how common that really is - or does it just sell newspapers?
I can speak for 2 clients--not large companies--both between 500 mil and 1 bil--and they are avoiding *any* .net like it's the plague.
IMHO, it's just another desparate crack at a virtual machine, c# is just a new name for java. I think it will many of the same problems that the other vm's had--mainly that it will *never* be universally compatible--even when all clients first install that 27 meg emulator (ooops--'Common Language Runtime').
At both of these clients, myself and other consultants and in-house coders have many vb6 apps scattered about their sites around the US. With broadband links to all locations, having each client upload a Wise patch or upgrade is a snap, we have virtually no compatibility problems, and there is no compelling reason to dive into the pain of a major dev. platform conversion that even Bill Gates himself admitted wouldn't be 'fully ready' until about 2006.
I think if you look behind the false saleman's smile of Steve Ballmer, you'd see abject fear in his realization that this is nowhere near the success he needed it to be.
--jsteph
IMHO, it's just another desparate crack at a virtual machine, c# is just a new name for java. I think it will many of the same problems that the other vm's had--mainly that it will *never* be universally compatible--even when all clients first install that 27 meg emulator (ooops--'Common Language Runtime').
At both of these clients, myself and other consultants and in-house coders have many vb6 apps scattered about their sites around the US. With broadband links to all locations, having each client upload a Wise patch or upgrade is a snap, we have virtually no compatibility problems, and there is no compelling reason to dive into the pain of a major dev. platform conversion that even Bill Gates himself admitted wouldn't be 'fully ready' until about 2006.
I think if you look behind the false saleman's smile of Steve Ballmer, you'd see abject fear in his realization that this is nowhere near the success he needed it to be.
--jsteph
We're making the jump from VB6 to C#.
We feel it's a more rigorous language that will let us do a lot of the things that VB would not (inheritance being only one).
The runtime requirements (11mb redistributable) are not an issue for us, as we control the servers it will run on (we're an ASP).
Chip H.
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We feel it's a more rigorous language that will let us do a lot of the things that VB would not (inheritance being only one).
The runtime requirements (11mb redistributable) are not an issue for us, as we control the servers it will run on (we're an ASP).
Chip H.
If you want to get the best response to a question, please check out FAQ222-2244 first
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