VB7

The early reports all show VB7 to be primarly based toward web development, COM+, and windows DNA. To take advantage of the majority of these feature you will need to run Windows 2000 Professional (Workstation) as your OS. Your install base will also be required to be Win2K. Many of the Internet features will require Windows 2000 Server as your OS. I suggest you reconsider VB6 as your dev choice.

[Clunietp]

With VB7, Windows 2000 is not REQUIRED to make the regular apps that we make today in VB6, but some of the newer features will be aimed towards Win2K, as they should be, because by the time VB7 is released Win2k will be the greatest thing since sliced bread.

That would make no sense for microsoft to abandon 9x and NT platforms altogether in a new version of VB, and MS is not stupid enough to do so.

I have no facts to back this up (at this time) but there is no way MS would abandon the 1 million+ VB developers who still need solutions for the older platforms.

[Tonatiuh]

Do you know when is going to be released VB7, is there any Beta version available?

[jritchie]

Newer releases of ADO 2.3 and above support xml etc, newer releases of windows office etc offer higher level support for drill down logic, (what the rest of us call multi-value database technology which has been around for the last couple of decades..gee l though Bill was up with the play), if vb7 is geared towards these technologies then let me at it. Having just started a e-commerce project, (and for the unitiated that is Company to Company, not Public to company) l caren't wait for vb7 and xml support.

[Clunietp]

you can save recordsets as XML via ADO 2.1, and use the MSXML parser to read XML documents right now