VB.NET or regular VB ?

[English Teacher]

At this point in time, which would be more useful to learn: VB.NET or
regular Visual Basic?

THANKS!

[J French]

On 20 Oct 2003 23:48:03 -0700, En************@ModernEnglish.com
(English Teacher) wrote:

At this point in time, which would be more useful to learn: VB.NET or
regular Visual Basic?

THANKS!

VB.NET is pretty much a different language from VB 'Classic'

It requires the .NET platform on the system, which is about 20mb

So if one is writing small Apps for users who do not have .NET
installed, distribution will be a problem

[(Pete Cresswell)]

RE/

At this point in time, which would be more useful to learn: VB.NET or
regular Visual Basic?

Looking around the site where I do most of my work (a major mutual fund -
10,000+ employees) I'd say VB.NET is "what's happening".
--
PeteCresswell

[J French]

On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 01:30:37 GMT, "(Pete Cresswell)" <x@y.z> wrote:

RE/

At this point in time, which would be more useful to learn: VB.NET or
regular Visual Basic?

Looking around the site where I do most of my work (a major mutual fund -
10,000+ employees) I'd say VB.NET is "what's happening".
--
PeteCresswell

Well, it is targeted at large corporates, so that is not surprizing

- having said that large corporates have a tendency to mess around 'at
the bleeding edge',
- partly because senior managers are ignorant, and follow trends
- partly because programmers want to work on the latest stuff so that
they can improve their CV

[Cameron]

En************@ModernEnglish.com (English Teacher) wrote in message news:<b0**************************@posting.google. com>...

At this point in time, which would be more useful to learn: VB.NET or
regular Visual Basic?

THANKS!

but if you plan to go the .NET road ...then learn C# instead

[jim]

That is an interesting comment, why C#

Jim
"Cameron" <go**********@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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En************@ModernEnglish.com (English Teacher) wrote in message

news:<b0**************************@posting.google. com>...

At this point in time, which would be more useful to learn: VB.NET or
regular Visual Basic?

THANKS!

but if you plan to go the .NET road ...then learn C# instead

[Scott Barnes]

A bit off topic in woodworking and photo newsgroups, don't you think?

Anyway, C# is presumably the most native language of .NET Meaning it can
get at the .NET internals more efficiently and directly.

Scott

"jim" <ji*@owensmarine.com> wrote in

That is an interesting comment, why C#
Jim
"Cameron" <go**********@yahoo.com> wrote

At this point in time, which would be more useful to learn: VB.NET or
regular Visual Basic?
THANKS!

but if you plan to go the .NET road ...then learn C# instead

[(Pete Cresswell)]

RE/

That is an interesting comment, why C#

I've heard people say that they chose C# because the syntax is
so different from VB that they think they won't get as confused
switching back-and-forth between VB 6 and .NET.
--
PeteCresswell

[Leicaddict]

En************@ModernEnglish.com (English Teacher) wrote in message news:<b0**************************@posting.google. com>...

At this point in time, which would be more useful to learn: VB.NET or
regular Visual Basic?

THANKS!

Regular Vb has been around longer, but eventually it will not be
supported. Learn VB.net or C#. Either way, you will need to learn the
dotnet framework to survive as a Windows developer.

-Zeke