What are you going to do?

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Hmm...... I believe in the end all will have to leave VB6.....

I found .NET very interesting, and I will most surely rewrite my programs in it, starting in a week or two. I have read few books and many articles about .NET, and I am pretty familiar with it, so I think it should not be that hard....  

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Wb Goran,
oooo back in the day when i was only a noob I remember your posts helping me out tremendously! (don't mean to make you feel old   )
Anyway, some of the cool things about /net that I like are:
1) Auto Layout of code - automatically indents your code to make it look pretty
2) overloading
3) Finally being able to use multi-threading in an app
4) Delegates
5) A bit of support from MS

Regards,
Kieron



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What benefits will I obtain?

Will my music program become multi-platform?
At present it is Windows only, and I have had many requests for LINUX or MAC versions.

Will I be able to run it on my web site?

Will I be able to use the custom controls (for example, those required for MIDI sound) or are there likely to be VB.NET versions?

The last migration I did, from VB3 to VB5, took 9 months for c90k lines of code. Is it likely that VB5 to VB.NET take longer?

Until I know some answers, I cannot make this decision.

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I concentrating on VB and ASP.NET right now and i love it than vb6  

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I had a feeling that i already posted against VB Net before....anyway if i was opposing before, then i take back whatever i said because VB NET is just so AMAZING!!!  

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I would like to take the great decision too , but I am too old to learn a new language ... As the priest sais : Together in life , together to death . By the way : which button do I have to press in order to vote ?

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I've been playing with VB.Net since Version 1. When 1.1 came along and I got Visual Studio 2003 I felt that at last we were getting somewhere with this new incarnation of VB, but a lot of it was still very difficult (for me anyway) to get to grips with - some of the new concepts that you C++ guys had been using for years but which I had never come into contact with still puzzle me. But now with Version 2 even the give-away Visual Studio 2005 Express is more powerful and easier than VB6.
I think the whole concept is great, I don't even consider VB6 now when I start a new Project, it's straight in to .Net.


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Every once in a while i try .net.  It feels really slow.  
Slow to write
Slow to debug
Slow to compile
Slow to learn

Maybe i had a hard time learning VB6 and forgot.  But it seems like VB6 was realy easy to learn, write etc.  Maybe my problem is the order i listed stuff in (write before learning).

The pool made sense in 2002
Now it is 2008, and quite everybody is forced to -at least -take a look  to something else.
Dot Net might not be that easy to learn - moreover,  from year to year new features are added to the whole so that we all never end to learn - but it is worth the effort.