Re: Why did Microsoft kill VB6
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I am not stuck on VB6, I am stuck on Rapid Application Development (RAD). In my humble opinion, .NET just doesn't cut it. I could only convert about half of my utilities to .NET, so I abandoned it.
That's because what you have described has nothing to do with RAD development, what you have said is the code converters from VB6 to VB.Net are not very good which is common knowledge.
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The RAD aspect of VB is probably what has impressed me the most over the short time I have used it. In any given weekend I can easily crank out a complete program with time to spare, its quite amazing.
One thing i will absolutely stand by as a plain as day advantage of using .Net over VB6 is the speed of development.
It is generally much faster to develop stuff in .Net in effect .Net is more RAD then VB6.
There are just more helper libraries and thing like Lists and Linq make huge differences in the speed you can develop at. Also the VS IDE for .Net is a huge time saver in comparison to VS6 with much better auto-complete, refactor options and the like.
VB6 is a good RAD language, and there is no doubt those coming from an office VBA background are going to find themselves faster with VB6 as it is more familiar, but that does not make it more RAD that just means that those people are more comfortable using it.
