Carlos J. Quintero said:
Hi Ken,
Nice to meet you again in .NET newsgroups this time!. Are you moving to
.NET? Or just a quick visit?
Hi Carlos....
Just visiting for now.... basically going through the same steps I did
before installing VB Classic.... that is, browse groups looking for answers
to questions I'd probably end up asking and looking for "pit falls" to avoid
before even starting to "play around".
I don't know if I'll ever completely drop VB6. As long as it works (much
faster btw), I'll use it. All the .Net hype about productivity and code
reuse seems to be just that..... hype. I heard someone the other day say "if
you have to re-write all of your 'reusable' classes each time a new product
is released, they're not very 'reusable' are they?" We have code here that's
survived since DOS days. In fact, a couple of our C devs still write all of
their code in C6 and run it in DOS to avoid the overhead of Windows and
allow them to squeeze every ounce of CPU/Ram performance out of a PC they
can.
In the long run, performance will be a key factor in any (trying to avoid
the use of the word "upgrade" here) migration path we take. Our software
doesn't really do the tasks that "normal" VBish software does.... absolutely
no database or web stuff here. Everything's written to run the hardware we
produce. Hardware monitoring and UIs need performance, not bells, whistles
and support for XP Themes <g>.
We'll see.... Even though I tend to sound bitter or "resistant to change",
I'm trying my best to keep an open mind here. I've even convinced a couple
of devs here to give VS'05 a chance. So far though, the experience isn't all
we've hoped for (immediately had problems with SourceSafe'05 integration
with VB6 and the VS IDE's dog slow)
The one thing I am interested in (not work related at all) is mobile
development. The emulators are extremely cool. If anything, I'll be playing
