Is microsoft awaring VB.Net too hard to maintain?

[mentochan]

It was heard that VB is not fitful for OO programming, and MS is
falling into a hardtime to maintain such product. I myself don't think
it's true.
Is there any articles talk about this?

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Mentochan,

I assume that VB Net is more OOP than C++ and C#. As I read these newsgroups
than VB Net programmers become at a certain moment more converming the
rules, while for C++ and C# programmers probably old C rules are for them as
well OOP.

However it is as well usable while ignoring that.
(There are 6 million programmers probably converting you know, a little bit
more than with other languages).

Cor

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It was heard that VB is not fitful for OO programming, and MS is
falling into a hardtime to maintain such product. I myself don't think
it's true.
Is there any articles talk about this?

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

<me*******@gmai l.comschrieb:

It was heard that VB is not fitful for OO programming, and MS is
falling into a hardtime to maintain such product. I myself don't think
it's true.
Is there any articles talk about this?

No, because it's not true...

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>

[Mento]

Thanks Cor, thanks Herfried.

Nice to hear that :)

[Patrice]

I've just seen personal opinions such as :

"There is no need for another language and developing VB.NET took resources
away from developing the framework. The framework library shows signs of
poor design and cut corners and I think that if Microsoft hadn't diverted
its resources towards VB.NET then the framework library would have been much
better."

(quoted from http://www.grimes.demon.co.uk/dotnet/vbpetition.htm)

I wouldn't worry much about this...

--
Patrice

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It was heard that VB is not fitful for OO programming, and MS is
falling into a hardtime to maintain such product. I myself don't think
it's true.
Is there any articles talk about this?

[Dennis]

I suspect that with 30 billion in cash even after the 3 dlr per share special
dividend and earnings increasing 10 to 15% each year that M'soft has the
resources to develop both VB.Net and FrameWork.
--
Dennis in Houston
"Patrice" wrote:

I've just seen personal opinions such as :

"There is no need for another language and developing VB.NET took resources
away from developing the framework. The framework library shows signs of
poor design and cut corners and I think that if Microsoft hadn't diverted
its resources towards VB.NET then the framework library would have been much
better."

(quoted from http://www.grimes.demon.co.uk/dotnet/vbpetition.htm)

I wouldn't worry much about this...

--
Patrice

<me*******@gmai l.coma écrit dans le message de news:
11************* *********@75g20 00...legro ups.com...

It was heard that VB is not fitful for OO programming, and MS is
falling into a hardtime to maintain such product. I myself don't think
it's true.
Is there any articles talk about this?

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

"Patrice" <sc****@chez.co mschrieb:

I've just seen personal opinions such as :

"There is no need for another language and developing VB.NET took
resources away from developing the framework. The framework library shows
signs of poor design and cut corners and I think that if Microsoft hadn't
diverted its resources towards VB.NET then the framework library would
have been much better."

(quoted from http://www.grimes.demon.co.uk/dotnet/vbpetition.htm)

Microsoft doesn't sell the .NET Framework, it sells IDEs. I doubt that many
former VB6 users would have migrated to a Microsoft IDE at all if there was
not VB.NET.

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>

[Kevin]

Why then is most of the sample code I find on the Internet written in
C#? I've found that some things done in C# can't be done in VB. I will
continue using VB nonetheless.
On Tue, 4 Jul 2006 09:09:19 +0200, "Cor Ligthert [MVP]"
<no************ @planet.nlwrote :

>Mentochan,

I assume that VB Net is more OOP than C++ and C#. As I read these newsgroups
than VB Net programmers become at a certain moment more converming the
rules, while for C++ and C# programmers probably old C rules are for them as
well OOP.

However it is as well usable while ignoring that.
(There are 6 million programmers probably converting you know, a little bit
more than with other languages).

Cor

<me*******@gma il.comschreef in bericht
news:11******* *************** @75g2000cwc.goo glegroups.com.. .

>It was heard that VB is not fitful for OO programming, and MS is
falling into a hardtime to maintain such product. I myself don't think
it's true.
Is there any articles talk about this?

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Kevin,

Why then is most of the sample code I find on the Internet written in
C#? I've found that some things done in C# can't be done in VB. I will
continue using VB nonetheless.

I think that you have to wait until those 6 million are over.

There is very few to what you can do more in C# than in VB.Net (unsafe
code).

For the rest I am curious what you have found what can be done in C# 2005
more than in VB.Net.

The same is for C# which can almost completely use the Visual Basic
namespace.

However I real C# programmer would not do that, I think something the same
as a real Englishman would not drink Dutch or Belgium beer some decenia ago.

:-)

Cor

>
On Tue, 4 Jul 2006 09:09:19 +0200, "Cor Ligthert [MVP]"
<no************ @planet.nlwrote :

>>Mentochan,

I assume that VB Net is more OOP than C++ and C#. As I read these
newsgroups
than VB Net programmers become at a certain moment more converming the
rules, while for C++ and C# programmers probably old C rules are for them
as
well OOP.

However it is as well usable while ignoring that.
(There are 6 million programmers probably converting you know, a little
bit
more than with other languages).

Cor

<me*******@gm ail.comschreef in bericht
news:11****** *************** *@75g2000cwc.go oglegroups.com. ..

>>It was heard that VB is not fitful for OO programming, and MS is
falling into a hardtime to maintain such product. I myself don't think
it's true.
Is there any articles talk about this?

[Kevin]

I'm just now making the switch from VB6 to VB2005, so I haven't had a
lot of experience with it. I've found one thing so far when trying to
create a custom class from a Combobox. I found sample code on both and
tried making the methods and properties I wanted from between the two.
In C# you can create a ReadOnly property for a Combobox while VB won't
let you use the Keyword.

I never had Dutch beer. Is it better than American beer?
On Tue, 4 Jul 2006 21:55:47 +0200, "Cor Ligthert [MVP]"
<no************ @planet.nlwrote :

>Kevin,

>Why then is most of the sample code I find on the Internet written in
C#? I've found that some things done in C# can't be done in VB. I will
continue using VB nonetheless.

I think that you have to wait until those 6 million are over.

There is very few to what you can do more in C# than in VB.Net (unsafe
code).

For the rest I am curious what you have found what can be done in C# 2005
more than in VB.Net.

The same is for C# which can almost completely use the Visual Basic
namespace.

However I real C# programmer would not do that, I think something the same
as a real Englishman would not drink Dutch or Belgium beer some decenia ago.

:-)

Cor

>>
On Tue, 4 Jul 2006 09:09:19 +0200, "Cor Ligthert [MVP]"
<no*********** *@planet.nlwrot e:

>>>Mentochan,

I assume that VB Net is more OOP than C++ and C#. As I read these
newsgroups
than VB Net programmers become at a certain moment more converming the
rules, while for C++ and C# programmers probably old C rules are for them
as
well OOP.

However it is as well usable while ignoring that.
(There are 6 million programmers probably converting you know, a little
bit
more than with other languages).

Cor

<me*******@g mail.comschreef in bericht
news:11***** *************** **@75g2000cwc.g ooglegroups.com ...
It was heard that VB is not fitful for OO programming, and MS is
falling into a hardtime to maintain such product. I myself don't think
it's true.
Is there any articles talk about this?