VB6 over VB5 advantages?

Hi all

I'm totally familiar with VB5 but am considering moving to VB6 soon.
However, I am a little apprehensive as to what difficulties, if any, are
ahead.

To those that have progressed..
What are the main features that you now use that weren't available in VB5?

Did it take long (hours? weeks? months?) to become comfortable with VB6?

Is VB6 more efficient in the final, compiled .exe in speed, size or
operation?

I may have more, but that will do for now. Very interested in your
comments.

TIA
Don

re: VB6 over VB5 advantages?

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 00:42:48 +1000, D & J G wrote:
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>Hi all
>
>I'm totally familiar with VB5 but am considering moving to VB6 soon.
>However, I am a little apprehensive as to what difficulties, if any, are
>ahead.
>
>To those that have progressed..
>What are the main features that you now use that weren't available in VB5?[/color]

A few new keywords.
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>Did it take long (hours? weeks? months?) to become comfortable with VB6?[/color]

No time at all - they're very similar; you may not even notice any
difference.
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>Is VB6 more efficient in the final, compiled .exe in speed, size or
>operation?[/color]

No idea - when the opportunity came for me to upgrade, I just did;
didn't test or compare. [shrug]
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>I may have more, but that will do for now. Very interested in your
>comments.[/color]

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re: VB6 over VB5 advantages?

bout the same
6.0 works databases a little better from what I recall
Does 5.0 have the ADO Data control ?
6.0 has the intrinsic data control AND the ADO data control
save the money

"D & J G" <donandjane@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
news:4107bb62$0$26896$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.a u...[color=blue]
> Hi all
>
> I'm totally familiar with VB5 but am considering moving to VB6 soon.
> However, I am a little apprehensive as to what difficulties, if any, are
> ahead.
>
> To those that have progressed..
> What are the main features that you now use that weren't available in VB5?
>
> Did it take long (hours? weeks? months?) to become comfortable with VB6?
>
> Is VB6 more efficient in the final, compiled .exe in speed, size or
> operation?
>
> I may have more, but that will do for now. Very interested in your
> comments.
>
> TIA
> Don
>
>[/color]


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re: VB6 over VB5 advantages?

> I'm totally familiar with VB5 but am considering moving to VB6 soon.[color=blue]
> However, I am a little apprehensive as to what difficulties, if any,[/color]
are[color=blue]
> ahead.
>
> To those that have progressed..
> What are the main features that you now use that weren't available in[/color]
VB5?

You get the new string functions Replace, Split and Join (plus some
others)... I don't know where I would be without those.<g>

Rick

re: VB6 over VB5 advantages?

"D & J G" <donandjane@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
news:4107bb62$0$26896$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.a u...[color=blue]
> Hi all
>
> I'm totally familiar with VB5 but am considering moving to VB6 soon.
> However, I am a little apprehensive as to what difficulties, if any, are
> ahead.
>
> To those that have progressed..
> What are the main features that you now use that weren't available in VB5?
>
> Did it take long (hours? weeks? months?) to become comfortable with VB6?
>
> Is VB6 more efficient in the final, compiled .exe in speed, size or
> operation?
>
> I may have more, but that will do for now. Very interested in your
> comments.
>
> TIA
> Don
>[/color]

Just curious as to why you are looking to upgrade to VB 6, rather than VB
..NET? Apart from the obvious drawback that you need the .NET framework to
run your programs in, VB .NET has some really nice features.
These include (imho, naturally!):

The best IDE I've ever used.
Better implementation of the object-oriented paradigm.
Better integration with the rest of Visual Studio.
Potentially less verbose code (not a biggie to VB developers perhaps, but I
originally learnt 'C'...).
Task Lists to remind you what needs to be done.
An auto-import tool for your old VB 6 projects (which actually works well)

and a whole host of other benefits.

Oh, and the syntax is 95 % VB 6, with a few slight differences. You'll pick
it up in hours.

re: VB6 over VB5 advantages?

"Rowland" <banksr0@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<ceahi1$228$1@hercules.btinternet.com>...
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> Just curious as to why you are looking to upgrade to VB 6, rather than VB
> .NET?[/color]

If the OP is concerned about VB5/VB6 differences they are in for a
real shock if they look at VB.Net
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> Oh, and the syntax is 95 % VB 6, with a few slight differences. You'll pick
> it up in hours.[/color]

ROTFLMAO
VB.Net bears a superficial resemblance to VB but the differences are
many and even identical syntax doesn't always work the same way. If
you are going to go .Net, go C#. VB.Net is nothing more than a sick
joke.

re: VB6 over VB5 advantages?

> > <cut>[color=blue][color=green]
> > Oh, and the syntax is 95 % VB 6, with a few
> > slight differences. You'll pick it up in hours.[/color]
>
> ROTFLMAO[/color]

Agreed!!! (I just picked myself up off the floor this very minute.)

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> VB.Net bears a superficial resemblance to VB but
> the differences are many and even identical syntax
> doesn't always work the same way.[/color]

And when the identical syntax does work the same way, there is almost
invariably an alternative method of coding it that is more efficient
within the .NET framework way of doing things.

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> If you are going to go .Net, go C#. VB.Net is
> nothing more than a sick joke.[/color]

Yes, there are arguments favoring C# over VB.NET (they have, as you are
aware, been delineated in several threads on this subject in the various
VB newsgroups); but I am not willing to go as far as you and call VB.NET
a "sick joke". I think it may have a place in the programming world
(assuming Microsoft doesn't abandon it down the line), but that place is
not the same one that VB1 through VB6 occupied. The real pity here is
that Microsoft chose to keep the VB tag in its name... that is just
plain misleading and has been the cause of what seems like an increasing
number of misdirected postings to these classic VB newsgroups by the
VB.NET community.


Rick