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Visual Basic .NET Standard 2003
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28 May, 2003 )
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Brilliant update of a brilliant language  |
After a few years programming in the previous version of BASIC (i.e. V6.0), this new .NET edition does take a little getting used to. After a while exploring the features and experimenting with the improved syntax though, you realise how powerful this new version of BASIC is.The Development Environment created by Microsoft here is up to the usual high standard and is very easy to use and intuative. Also this package is not plainly for BASIC development. There are also very useful tools for developing web pages, various XML technologies and scripting languages supported and also you can make icons for your applications. This is a very good all-round software development package, at a very reasonable price (at first I thought the price was maybe a little high, but after playing with all the features of this package, it is worth every penny!). I would seriously recomend this package to anyone interested in developing Windows or web-based applications.
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Id recommend it to all VBA/VB6 developers |
Beautiful! The updated interface is a dream for any long time developers, the libraries go on forever and the capabilities of the new VB language stretch almost as far as C++ - its a proper programming language now.The ability to develop and deploy for both the web and for the desktop with almost exactly the same code future proofs all applications developed in this environment. After years of doing battle with MS Access and VB6 dll hell Microsoft have finally pulled all of their rabbits out of all sorts of hats at the same time. Those who are considering a move from VB6 dont hesitate in the slightest. The .Net framework is Microsofts version of Java and you can tell they threw billions into developing it. It only took Microsoft you 20 years but at last (at long last!) theyre finally spent all those big fat profits on something good. I like it!
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Different to VB6 but the same |
I have been using VB6 for the last 4 years, and have also used qbasic. i recently purchased VB.net and I was pleasently suprisedthe look
the integrated development environment (IDE) has changed for the better, it looks XP like, and is easy to interact with. The IDE is now used for all the Microsoft programming languages.
the contols, ie the text boxes, timer,labels etc. these are all located on the same bar, but their are all grouped into a relevent group. this i found useful and quicker to find the control i required.
to stop the IDE from being cluttered. the tool bars and viewers have an option to auto hide them. so if you are not using them, they are reduced to a tab, which you can hover the mouse over to expand them.
A new thing i did notice with the IDE was a task list, where you can set your self tasks and if you code has errors the task list will contain the error messages. that is really helpful Code wise
as i have never used VB.net 2002, i will compaire it with VB6
all the varibles must be delcared otherwise it will not compile, but..
if there are any errors in your code it will tell you, as you are writting it. like in word with the spell check, it underlines the problem and all you have to do is hover the mouse over the problem to get a description
as you may have guess the coding has change a tad. true it has. it has given you alot of control in the code.
the main differences i have noticed sofar is: accessing files:
Filesystem object has been replaced with IO. this is ment to be far easier to cintrol, sofar i like it "open path for input as opentype #filenumber" has changed, this is not bad it look like they have just renamed the command to
"fileopen(filenumber, path, mode)" so not muck of a change but when it came to opening a form from another form it was a bit different. you had to declare the form as a varible then make it active, im not sure if im doing that right, but i liked the old way better I believe VB just got easier :)
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