James,
The very same thing should work in VB6 too. By "planning" I actually ment
planning within the scope of new functionalities offered by Framework
itself. I don't say in VB6 you don't need to plan certain approach, I just
say that it pays back triple in .NET 🙂
Regards,
Maksim Sestic
"James Maeding" wrote in message
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Thanks for the comments, those are good links. I know what you mean about
the dll hell. Dan Appleman did a good book
on the differences between vb6 and .net, and the wrox vb.net book is good
too.
Can you explin a little what you mean by it taking more time to plan.
Do you mean if you have a team on a project and need to plan how things get
split up, or do you mean there are lots of
ways of using the various frameworks, and I need to choose carefully?
any help appreciated.
Also, can that dll import trick be done to work with vb6? I have progs in
VB6 I would like to add that grdraw
capability to.
thx
Being a VB6 developer myself, I can tell that .NET programming concepts are
getting much deeper than that 🙂 Frankly, I
didn't care much about programming languages since I was working on my own,
and my code did what it was supposed to do.
As soon as I gathered team of guys working on the same project I stumbled
into a problem also known as "DLL Hell"
(http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=DLL+Hell). DotNET was the only viable
solution apart from all of us learning the
same programming language.
A word or two on .NET concepts... You will have to revise A LOT of what you
currently know about programming techniques
:-) Language syntax itself is the easiest part. Some people say that it's
"real OOP", my conclusion was that now it
takes much more time to plan and considerably less time to code. Plain and
simple. Take a look at the following links on
VB.NET programming, it might give you a hint where to start from:
- The Code Project (http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/)
- vbCity/DevCity.NET Forums (http://www.vbcity.com/forums/faq.asp?fid=15)
- VB.NET Heaven (http://www.vbdotnetheaven.com/)
- DevX VB.NET Articles (http://www.devx.com/dotnet/Door/10587)
- Xtreme VB Talk (http://www.xtremevbtalk.com)
- DeveloperFusion (http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/vbnet/)
- Microsoft VB Developer Center (http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/)
Regards,
Maksim Sestic
James Maeding
Civil Engineer and Programmer
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