If you need any Help with .Net I am more than glad to assist. I am on my 3rd
VB .Net class now. Portablity will as in upgrading from 6 to .net doesn't
work as well as MS intend it to thats for sure. But it is much easier to
start off learning .Net then it is to learn 6 first. But either way you go
it's sure to be an adventure....
Randy,
Don't be hot, just people say that junk all the time I have to respond when
they do. VB has a place and a time it is a well founded langauge. 3rd party
app's need not always be C though. I agree not all things in C can be done
in VB but the same is true on the other hand to. Database for instance I use
VB whenever I need to communicate to a DB just easier. I started with VB
then to VC++, COBOL, and now C# & VB .Net. One langauge is not better than
another rather I look at it like this which is best for the situation and
the application.
"Randy Sanders" wrote in message
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> I am not getting as hot as I expected. 🙂 But, I fully agree. For a
> beginner, VB is the way to start to learn programming. I started with
Basic
> (way before VB was a dream inside of the dream of Windows), Fortran,
Cobol,
> and RPG. Then moved to Lisp with AutoCAD (before there was ADS) and when
ADS
> (C) came out moved to it. Now ARX (C++) is what I use the most. For
creating
> simple macros, and small applications, that speed is not an issue, VB is a
> very good language, very easy to use and quick to program. His question
was
> about what language third party apps are written in, which I would say
that
> most of them (specifically for AutoCAD, maybe not that high of a
percentage
> for Inventor, since its API is so lacking and there are just not that many
> third party apps for it) use C++, because they also have to interact with
> things outside of the main program. I have hundreds of thousands of lines
of
> code that are written in C and C++ and have to use them to achieve my
> program's goals, and translating them to VB is just not feasible. Also,
most
> applications themselves are written in C\C++ because of the complexity,
> speed, and the stability needed. So, if someone is wanting to eventually
> move into application development, then they will most surely need to
learn
> C\C++ eventually. My intent was not to put VB down, just to state that VC
is
> the eventual language of choice for complex development. :)
>
>
