Advantages and disadvantages of VB.NET !??!?!- an evaluation ?

[Bob brar]

Hi everybody,

can anybody help me with this !??!

I have been using VB.NET for only a few months (and VB6 for a couple of
uears) and I understand the basic differences between .NET and VB6.

However, I wondered if somebody could offer a more meaty evaluation of
VB.NET or at least point me in the direction of an article that might do the
trick. This is from the standpoint of somebody developing a simple desktop
application that updates / modifies etc.. information in an Access Database
using ADO.NET.

Questions I would like to answer are along the lines of..
1)Are there things VB.NET CAN'T do ? or does less efficiently than its
predessor !?!? (e.g I am guessing deployment is something thats different
having to install .NET environment on non XP computers first to run a VB.NET
app !?!?)
2) Is this type of project better suited to VB6 !??!
3) What are the bugs performance issues to think about ?!?!?!

[news.microsoft.com]

Hi,

A couple of things VB.NET can't do:
- Array indexes have to start with zero, instead of able to be anything
- Control arrays don't exist.

But neither of these are showstoppers. Having arrays start at zero, except
in a few cases, is no big deal (though I did have one situation that
required quite a bit of redesign). And in .NET you can create any controls
you want at run-time, regardless of whether they are related to another
control already on the form.

So far as I've seen, most of VB.NET's changes are just different, not a lot
more or a lot less. Data binding and database updates are a lot different,
but I'm not happy with data binding in either VB6 or .NET.

Brian

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