Hi,

I need your advise on which Development tool is the best for me.

For some years now I have been using Visual Basic 6.0 for developing applications mostly for real time data acquisitions, machine control etc.

The programs generally use a serial port for communication with the external world.

I find Visual Basic 6.0 best suited for me because
(1). This was my first language.
(2). It has the best IDE\
(3). It has all the GUI components required to make a good windows application.

The most important of all, it has the MSCOMM control that makes communication with the external world easy, I have tried other development tools such as FreePascal etc. and have found that they lack a serial port class or DLLs that supports events as the MSCOMM control.

Kindly advise whether VB.NET is OK, is the learning curve to steep even for Visual Basic developers...

I have also developed several controls/ standard codes using visual basic, so naturally I may be biased towards using a VB compliant tool.

thanks
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