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What is the current worlwide use statistics for vb6?
Will vb6 and .net co-exist or will vb6 be gradually phased out?
what is the average salary for a vb6 programmer?
Do you recommend investing in vb6 skills ( i am not a fan of .net)
Please reply
Thanks,
pravric

Welcome to the Forums.

You need to go directly to .NET as Vb6 is no longer supported by MS unless you have purchased extended support until 2008.

On average I say the .NET developer out earns the vb6 developer hands down, no competition.

Mmh mmh..
VB6 will as robdog said phase out now that support has 'officially' ended for most customers. This doesn't mean that companies drop VB6 instantly.

At this point in time .NET developers earn more because a lot of companies are currently in .net migration projects (I'm in one -.-). Companies are therefor easier to persuade to buy more .net knowledge people in at this stage then it will be in lets say.. 3 years.

Wether it's recommended to still invest in vb6 skills.. mmh.. depends, if you are just starting at coding.. head directly over to .net as it will dominate the developers market for years to come, if you are already skilled in vb6 there is still a lot of work around regarding migrations and such but I doubt a lot of companies are still investing in Vb6 coders for normal projects.

Anyway.. my 2 cents :]

Welcome to the forums. :wave:

It always has amused me that lack of Microsoft support has, in many eyes, heralded the down fall of VB6. :lol:

I know of almost no one that ever counted on Microsoft's support anyway, so their dropping the support is laughably insignificant. ROFL

VB6 will only phase out when the companies using VB6 stop using it, and Microsoft has no control over that (although they may think they do.)

If you are just starting out however, and you actually have an option, I would go with .NET

Thanks all

pravric

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Originally Posted by Hack

Welcome to the forums. :wave:

It always has amused me that lack of Microsoft support has, in many eyes, heralded the down fall of VB6. :lol:

I know of almost no one that ever counted on Microsoft's support anyway, so their dropping the support is laughably insignificant. ROFL

VB6 will only phase out when the companies using VB6 stop using it, and Microsoft has no control over that (although they may think they do.)

If you are just starting out however, and you actually have an option, I would go with .NET

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The thing I noticed significant about their dropping of support is the removal of some VB6.0 links in their MSDN... :(

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The thing I noticed significant about their dropping of support is the removal of some VB6.0 links in their MSDN... :(

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You have a valid point here dee-u, however, I believe that sites like this one, can, and do, step in to fill this "gap".

Although I agree with RobDog about the salary level of .Net programmers vs VB6 programmers...

That will pendulum swing in the opposite direction in a few years...

I made more money on COBOL contract work over the Y2K era then any other language I knew. As the population of available programmers drops the natural tendency is to pay the smaller population more to stay - simple supply and demand economics...

But go with .Net anyway!

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Originally Posted by Hack

You have a valid point here dee-u, however, I believe that sites like this one, can, and do, step in to fill this "gap".

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Yap, I'm glad VBForums exists... :)

Just out of curiosity, what do you have against .NET?

I am more interested in J2EE.
Nothing against .net.
don't need both

pravric

Ah, I mis-interpreted your comment about not being a fan of .NET to mean that you dislike it, when you meant that you were indifferent.