I'm too disappointed with VS.NET and its Windows Forms

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m_oliveira

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guys,

Why this thing is sooooooo slow?

When I used to program in VB6, I had productiveness. Now, it takes a lot of
time just to open an ordinary form designer. I'm getting tired of VB.NET and,
as my project grows, it becomes slower and slower. I think it would be better
to go back to VB6 and make my life easier...

Marcelo
 
m_oliveira said:
guys,

Why this thing is sooooooo slow?

When I used to program in VB6, I had productiveness. Now, it takes a lot of
time just to open an ordinary form designer. I'm getting tired of VB.NET and,
as my project grows, it becomes slower and slower. I think it would be better
to go back to VB6 and make my life easier...

Marcelo
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I don't really have that problem. The only time I have slowness is when I put a setup file with it because then it also has to run the setup program, So I just basically take the setup solution out until I am ready to do it. Then it comes up pretty quick. Actually also it does come up slow the first time I run it for the day, but after that It is fine.

Actually in the long run it won't be easier because VB6 will become absolete and then you will have to use .NET, so bewst learn it now and deal with the slowness or maybe get an udpdated machine.
 
:D he prolly can't afford the machine after paying for the VS license! :D​

That's why I'm still running a PIII 800 512 RAM. But as far as speed goes, I don't have a problem. I think a lot of the problem may also be caused if you use the form designers. I used to use the designers all the time, and as I got more familiar with the little things I now add controls at runtime, and I must say I've noticed a fair bit of difference. WHY?? I dunno. I'll have to chalk that one up the Microsoft's Magic Beans I guess.

But if you think VS.net is slow, I've had the opportunity to try out Sun One Studio for Java delevoping, and that is such a pig! It took about 3-4 minutes to load on a workstation with 750 MB RAM and it didn't get any better after it opened. :eek: My Jaw dropped. :eek: It was all built with Java I think. It didn't help me put much faith into Java for desktop developing that was for sure. :p
 
Sun One Studio is written in Java, most Java development tools are. Now you know why no one likes Java, it's not the language, it's the IDE's.
 
Diesel said:
Sun One Studio is written in Java, most Java development tools are. Now you know why no one likes Java, it's not the language, it's the IDE's.
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that why its so much easier to just write java in a notepad and use a compiler to create you classes. much faster, and doesn't need any load time
 
There are other .NET development tools available. Check out this link http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/
It's a pretty decent alternative to Visual Studio (and it's free). I haven't used it very much since I'm using VS at work so I can't say anything about it's preformance though. I also agree with techmanbd, MS has a habit of dropping support and "encouraging" people to move to the newer technology so, I wouldn't be so quick to forget about .NET. But, all politics aside, I think that the .NET platform (VB .NET in particular) is far superior to 6.0. Not to bag on VB 6 but, Visual Basic is a "real" language now and offers so much more in terms of capabilities. I have to do work with 6.0 on occasion and I can't stand the limitations compared to .NET. Embrace the change brother.
 
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