VB6 Vs VB.Net

imported_Jack · 07-17-2003, 10:33 PM

What is everyone's thoughts on the benefits of migrating to VB.Net from VB6? I have tens of thousands of lines of VB6 code and have been very reluctant to migrate to VB.Net.

Person · 07-17-2003, 10:37 PM

If its a big project and it works fine, dont migrate it to VB.NET. The only pojects that are worth migrating are small ones or the ones that could greatly benefit from migration. And never use the Upgrade Wiard provided by VS.NET, it produces terrible code, like a default instance of a form, like it was in VB6 where you always had a defualt instance so you didnt have to worry about creating one. VB.NET is great, so much better then VB6 but if the project is big its just a waste.

imported_Jack · 07-18-2003, 09:56 AM

Thanks for your reply.

What are the main benefits of VB.Net over VB6. Also, how different is the syntax and IDE.

I have VB.Net but have yet to do anything with it.

Person · 07-18-2003, 04:26 PM

VB.NET is mainly better becuase you can do stuff that was very hard to do in VB6, like threading which now takes 2 lines of code.

Syntax is almost the same (its VB

:beard: ) , few keywords and object types dont work anymore and were substituted. Like Variant, it is now substituted with Object type. Or Let or Set dont work anymore.

And IDE, if you have Visual Studio (Pro at least) then this will probably be the best IDE any language has to offer. If you have the stanard version of VB.nET, it lacks some features but some of them came be easily worked out.

Person · 07-18-2003, 04:53 PM

Ha, how could I forget to mention it!
VB.NET is fully OOP, which means inheritance and that cool stuff

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mizmerize · 12-14-2003, 09:06 AM

I would like to remind you of some facts when people was starting to explore and DISTRIBUTE pre-Visual Basic.NET programs:

It's runtime is called "the msvbvm60.dll bloatware". That means you have to include this 1 MB dll in your program to work on other Windows machines. You are lucky if the users have newer versions of Windows.

And now, here comes .NET that even confirms the bloatware legacy to be continued. You have to install the 10 MB .NET framework in order for the simple 10 KB VB.NET program to work.

That is just my impression of .NET. Some say it's just J2EE/SE on a Windows platform. More appropriately designed for network computing. Executed on servers.

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