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I currently have VB6 (my school uses VB5 :eek2: ) and use it for school projects. I am currently about 3/4 of the way through the first of three classes that use VB. Seeing as I plan on taking the remaining classes I am just wondering if it would be worth it for me to upgrade to VB 2008 or just stick with VB6.
Feedback/Comments will be appreciated.
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VB6 is virtually identical to VB5, but later versions (VB 2002 onwards) are not - they are basically a different language, but with some syntax that is similar.
As your school has decided to be so far out of date (even with free editions of the latest versions being available), it would probably be a bad idea for you to 'upgrade', as you are likely to get confused between the two.
If you do decide to "upgrade" you can run both on your system side by side without issues. Only learning two similar languages may slow you down as Si mentioned but 2005/2008 Express are free downloads.
VB6 is virtually identical to VB5 is true. All I have to do to get my VB6 stuff to work at school is remove retained=0 from the project file using notepad or else it won't load it. So they are very similar and I have never had any actual code issues between the two.
But VB 2008 is an actual different language? So I couldn't work on VB5 projects on VB 2008 and vice versa?
That's right.. you can't take projects from one to the other (you would need to re-write parts of it).
VB5 and 6 are both "Classic" VB, and anything later is actually VB.Net (even tho Microsoft don't explicitly use that name these days).
Well yeah then in that case I guess I'll stick with VB6
You should at least give it the try - it really is worthed. You will find most of the syntax similar so untill you get more comfortable in the IDE you can use VB6 type coding - not a good idea tho...
I strongly recommend getting VB 2008 Express Edition - it's free after all and really is very good.
Can you give me a link please?Quote:
Originally Posted by RhinoBull
Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition - in case you loose it just go to MS main page and navigate from there.