I'm really scared and etchy about getting VB. NET, as I've just started out in VB 6 and I've gotten pretty used to it. But I wanted to know from experts that used VB 6 before....is it a big change? Will it be hard to get used to after just starting out in VB 6? What code changes are there? Any comments are appreciated, I really don't want to end up paying so much money, then find out that it's really hard and more complicated than VB 6. Please help.
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Jump to PostI'm not going to lie to you - it is a big difference. It's a big change, and it will be hard to get used to it - at first.
Over time, you will see how much better VB.NET. I refuse to work in VB6 now - it's crap …
Jump to PostOne change that comes up to my head right away is the .caption (or .label, I can't even remember) property from many objects are gone. It's now all standardized on .text (like TextBox1.text = "Mike", Label1.text="John"). This change, although small, shows why .NET is better then VB6 - its all …
Jump to PostWell, yes, but no.
In VB6, a click sub would need to be named with the buttoname_Click(). In .NET, that type of thing is gone. You can name the sub anything you want - it just needs to have a "handles" statement. So it could be, Private Sub mikeiscool() …
Jump to PostActually it makes a lot more sense. If you wanna check out Visual Studio 2003 (and Visual Basic .NET), Microsoft offers free online sessions into a computer running Visual Studio 2003.
Visual Studio .NET can help you with (nearly) every part of your job. But, don't take our word for …
Jump to PostIMHO Tekmaven is right. The changes do take some getting use to, and yes the IDE is a little fancier and slicker than VB6, but in the end you will find most of your tools right where you would expect them.
It has long been the bane of VB …
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