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I have taken several courses in VB 6.0. I cannot afford
to buy .NET at this time. I live near Atlanta. Can I get
a job at this point using VB 6.0, or will I need to
go .NET?
Jul 21 '05 #1
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You need to update your skills. VB 6.0 is dead - Microsoft no longer sells
it and their support ends early next year. Go to a community college and
take a VB.Net course. Microsoft sells college students VB.Net for a very
discounted price in the college book store.

"Henry" wrote:
I have taken several courses in VB 6.0. I cannot afford
to buy .NET at this time. I live near Atlanta. Can I get
a job at this point using VB 6.0, or will I need to
go .NET?

Jul 21 '05 #2
Hi Henry,

You can get a trial version of VS.NET from
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/pr...l/default.aspx .
--
Cindy Winegarden MCSD, Microsoft Visual FoxPro MVP
ci**************@mvps.org www.cindywinegarden.com
"Henry" <an*******@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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I have taken several courses in VB 6.0. I cannot afford
to buy .NET at this time. I live near Atlanta. Can I get
a job at this point using VB 6.0, or will I need to
go .NET?

Jul 21 '05 #3
Microsoft has made some very impressive IDEs available for
'hobby' and 'amateur' developers but the fact is they are quite
capable and will provide you with everything you will need to
learn ASP.NET and/or Windows application development
using the .NET Framework.

Microsoft Express [1]

Its going to be a challenge as it is all OOP. I strongly urge you
to acquire the QUE MCAD Training Guides as they are
excellent and cover all of the issues you will need to learn as
well as prepare you for the MCAD certification which you will
discover mahy not be neccessary but certainly can and will
help you become employed even if you do live near Atlanta ;-)

--
<%= Clinton Gallagher, "Twice the Results -- Half the Cost"
Architectural & e-Business Consulting -- Software Development
NET cs*********@REMOVETHISTEXTmetromilwaukee.com
URL http://www.metromilwaukee.com/clintongallagher/

[1] http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/
"Henry" <an*******@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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I have taken several courses in VB 6.0. I cannot afford
to buy .NET at this time. I live near Atlanta. Can I get
a job at this point using VB 6.0, or will I need to
go .NET?

Jul 21 '05 #4
You can also use the free development environment SharpDevelop. It is not as
good as VS.NET but it will do the job and lots of open source developers are
working on it.

--
cody

[Freeware, Games and Humor]
www.deutronium.de.vu || www.deutronium.tk
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I have taken several courses in VB 6.0. I cannot afford
to buy .NET at this time. I live near Atlanta. Can I get
a job at this point using VB 6.0, or will I need to
go .NET?

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