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Hey People, I learnt VB 6, 5 years ago but i have not been actively coding for more than 3 years now, I would to develop a Car Hire Management system with an online booking/reservation module. I am at a dillemma should i use VB 6 or is there another simpler/faster way of developing this application.
Kind Regards
Jonah
Welcome to VBForums :wave:
VB6 is rather out of date (it was released in 1998), and it is no longer supported - we do not know if VB6 programs will be able to work on any future versions of Windows.
There have been several new versions of VB since then, all of which are part of .Net, which comes with lots of pre-written code and does lots of things for you (such as automatically sizing/moving controls when you resize the form, making it very easy to putt an icon next to the clock, etc).
There are several people who haven't used .Net but don't like it on principle (generally because they don't want to use something new, or because the users might need a one-off big installation), but if you have a choice I would strongly recommend using it - even after about 10 years of VB6, my first VB.Net program took me less time than the VB6 equivalent would have.
You can get the latest version of VB.Net for free from www.microsoft.com/Express
Thanks for the quick reply, I am willing to learn .Net. Will download the free version and see what i can do. Will surely get back to this forum if i get stuck.
Regards
Jonah