paul addison Posted April 28, 2003 Posted April 28, 2003 Does anybody else feel like a complete novice with VB.NET after years of VB6 experience? Does it get better? What used to take minutes is now taking days. Hmmpff. :D not! Quote
*Experts* Merrion Posted April 28, 2003 *Experts* Posted April 28, 2003 It does get better - especially when you do something in VB.Net that was nigh-on impossible in VB6, like multi-threading or directly accessing the control or form's message queue etc. etc. Quote Printer Monitor for .NET? - see Merrion Computing Ltd for details
*Experts* Bucky Posted April 28, 2003 *Experts* Posted April 28, 2003 Don't even talk to me about Resize event code. :D Quote "Being grown up isn't half as fun as growing up These are the best days of our lives" -The Ataris, In This Diary
*Experts* Volte Posted April 28, 2003 *Experts* Posted April 28, 2003 It does get better - especially when you do something in VB.Net that was nigh-on impossible in VB6, like multi-threading or directly accessing the control or form's message queue etc. etc. Neither one of those things were even close to impossibe. :D Also, I do agree that for the first day or two I felt like a novice, but I caught on after a day or two, and now I'm pretty competant in general. Things that took minutes in VB6 take minutes in VB.NET, and things that take hours in VB6 take minutes in VB.NET as well. :p The key is classes. For example, if you need to do something which can take many lines of code, you create a helper class to store it in, and perhaps duplicate the old VB6 way. Quote
Moderators Robby Posted April 28, 2003 Moderators Posted April 28, 2003 I too felt like a novice the first few days, but that soon passed. I now dred coding in VB6, it really does not appeal to me any more. Quote Visit...Bassic Software
hog Posted May 1, 2003 Posted May 1, 2003 Ditto, but I soon picked up on VB .NET and love it. I hate having to go back using VB6/VBA. Quote My website
paul addison Posted May 2, 2003 Author Posted May 2, 2003 I appreciate it can do alot more but there are so many changes that progress is slow. Also .NET seems to do alot of things in the background which are making the PC sluggish to work on. Quote
Guest mutant Posted May 2, 2003 Posted May 2, 2003 I used to like VB6, but now .NET is so much better :) Quote
hog Posted May 2, 2003 Posted May 2, 2003 paul, I find that too but accept it as the price to pay for a good development environment. My fears were laid to rest once I compiled the application into release mode and installed it on another machine and it worked a treat. Quote My website
*Experts* Nerseus Posted May 2, 2003 *Experts* Posted May 2, 2003 The IDE is much slower than previous. Same was true for VB4 when it came out - compared to VB3 it was a DOG! I used to run a PIII 700 with 256meg RAM for VS 2002 (1.0) and some large apps took awhile to load (lots of DLLs, lots of webservice calls, lots of validation, etc. etc. etc.). Some performance testing fixed some programming problems, the rest were all gone when we went to Release mode. Before jumping to any conclusions, compile your app in Release mode and try it out on a typical end-user machine to see what they'll experience. The Debug mode inside of Visual Studio is a great tool for debugging, not so good for performance. -Nerseus Quote "I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center." - Kurt Vonnegut
Hornet Posted May 2, 2003 Posted May 2, 2003 Are there big diffirences in VS.NET and VS 6? My mate works already 2 years in VB 6 and he don't want to take the .NET version. He finds 2 gigs minimum to much for such an environment. :p I find that too, but VB.NET is suck a good language that I can't be angry against M$. Greetz, Hornet Quote
*Gurus* divil Posted May 2, 2003 *Gurus* Posted May 2, 2003 Your friend will only be able to hold out so long, then he'll have to move on. MS don't give people like us much of a choice in the matter :) Quote MVP, Visual Developer - .NET Now you see why evil will always triumph - because good is dumb. My free .NET Windows Forms Controls and Articles
hog Posted May 3, 2003 Posted May 3, 2003 Moving to VB.Net has been one of the best things I've done of late. I hate having to go back to apps I've written in VB, VBA etc. I think VB.Net is a dream to program in. Quote My website
wyrd Posted May 3, 2003 Posted May 3, 2003 What's VB6? Quote Gamer extraordinaire. Programmer wannabe.
hitechoutlaw Posted May 3, 2003 Posted May 3, 2003 Visual Basic 6 (you know the verson before .NET) Quote
hog Posted May 4, 2003 Posted May 4, 2003 hohohhhoh is that a joke or are you being serious....heehee :-) Quote My website
wyrd Posted May 5, 2003 Posted May 5, 2003 I'm always serious. Quote Gamer extraordinaire. Programmer wannabe.
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