What to Learn? Visual Basic 6.0 or VB.NET

As I've said in my other posts, I am newbier than a newbie when it comes to VB programming. And I am willing to learn. But what programming language do you suggest? Should I resort to learning the Classic Visual Basic or should I use VB.NET instead? Thanks.

Learn programming, not a language.

Then learn as many languages as you can. :)

Both then you know more than a newb hehe ;)...

I would suggest you *play* with VB6 (perhaps using Visual Studio Express, which is free on M$' website) then move up to .NET when you've got the fundamentals of VB understood...without the fundamentals, you've no chance in either language (although they're pretty much the same, just .NET has more features)

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Originally Posted by smUX

I would suggest you *play* with VB6 (perhaps using Visual Studio Express, which is free on M$' website) then move up to .NET ...

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Visual Studio Express is actually Visual Studio.Net Express (they are dropping .Net from their product names, as they no longer support anything else); VB6 was part of Visual Studio 98, and has not been available from Microsoft for a long time. ;)

I think going for the Express edition of VB is a good idea tho, it allows you to "dip your toe" before commiting to an actual purchase (and may be enough for you anyway).

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Originally Posted by si_the_geek

Visual Studio Express is actually Visual Studio.Net Express (they are dropping .Net from their product names, as they no longer support anything else); VB6 was part of Visual Studio 98, and has not been available from Microsoft for a long time. ;)

I think going for the Express edition of VB is a good idea tho, it allows you to "dip your toe" before commiting to an actual purchase (and may be enough for you anyway).

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Care to link me to some disadvantages of the Express editions? I can't seem to find any and I'm considering going through my old chest of stuff to find my .NET cd's...but to save the 5 disk install, I downloaded C# Express. So what are the main disadvantages?

chem

I'm afraid I dont have enough knowledge of either the 'regular' or Express versions to know.. perhaps someone else with that knowledge will post.

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Originally Posted by si_the_geek

I'm afraid I dont have enough knowledge of either the 'regular' or Express versions to know.. perhaps someone else with that knowledge will post.

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No problem :) Guess I'll just have to weave my way through the (IMO) messy Microsoft/MSDN website :)

chem

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Originally Posted by sirkeled

... Should I resort to learning the Classic Visual Basic or should I use VB.NET instead? Thanks.

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.NET (language is irrelevant in the framework) and don't a have a second thought about it.

I'm fairly new to this by comparison to the pros here but I agree with an earlier post - if you learn programming - e.g. the general syntax and coding principles then you can adapt to any lanuage.

I've learnt VB6 simply because it was the only book in the library :P but perhaps now VB.NET is more use, particularly after "Classic VB" getting dropped my MS for their .NET framework (stops self from coughing M$ imperialism)