You might want to look at
http://www.mvps.org/vb/rants/vfred.htm
"I generally hate being the bearer of bad news, but y'all really need to
know what Microsoft has planned for our language with their .Net initiative.
All-in-all, it's a really Cool platform. What saddens me is they chose to
leave Visual Basic out, almost entirely. Don't be confused by imitators,
what they want you to upgrade to is more commonly known as Visual Fred. If
you wonder why lots of folks are saying, "it's not VB anymore," click the
link above and see if you don't come to the same conclusion. "
--
Randy Birch
MVP Visual Basic
http://vbnet.mvps.org/
Please respond only to the newsgroups so all can benefit.
"Colin MacDougall" <colin |D0T|
ma********@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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: "Auric__" <no*********@email.address> wrote in message
: news:s1********************************@4ax.com...
: > On Tue, 2 Mar 2004 21:29:27 -0000, "Colin MacDougall" <colin |D0T|
: >
ma********@btinternet.com> wrote:
: >
: > >Hi,
: > >
: > >I am just starting to learn Visual Basic 6 and
: > >was wondering if just going straight on to
: > >VB.NET would be a better bet. Is VB.NET just
: > >a newer version of Visual Basic 6 or does it
: > >differ radically? My main reason for programming
: > >in VB is to build a data logger that reads,
: > >processes and stores bytes from an external device
: > >through the serial port and then exports it to an
: > >Excel spreadsheet - would VB.NET be suitable?
: >
: > VB.NET calls itself VB7 in some places, but it is quite different. If
: > you know anything about other programming languages, then it's quite
: > similar to going from C++ to Java. (Also somewhat similar to going from
: > QB to VB, but only in that things are *very different*.)
: >
: > For your purposes, yes, VB.NET would work, but IMHO VB6 is easier to
: > use, and as an added bonus, it doesn't require a 20+MB virtual machine
: > (a.k.a. the .NET Framework) to run. And if you already have VB6, then
: > you don't have to go through the hassle and expense of getting VB.NET.
: > --
: > auric "underscore" "underscore" "at" hotmail "dot" com
: > *****
: > Non-fiction often is more unrealistic than fiction.
:
: Thanks for the quick reply.
: Given that VB.NET is termed VB7 and is a good deal different from VB6
: does this mean that VB6 will not be updated by Microsoft and that
: all future VB versions will be based on VB.NET. The only reason I ask
: is that if I spend some time learning any VB then I would like to be
: sure that my efforts are useful for a few years to come. I can write
: code in C at the moment but the speed that a quite sophisticated
: Windows app can be written in VB is a major attraction to me. Writing
: VBA code for AutoCAD or MS Office suite is also a plus.
:
: Colin
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