vbf dying?

[MrPolite]

well someone will move this to chitchat sure but before that, ... I notice that there are few posts in the VB.NET section. Am I just dreaming or am I right?it seems like fewer people are posting here. You people got a better forum?

[manavo11]

You are right for a change But if you want to see dead, goto CCF...

[Andy]

well, it's easter weekend. lot's of people are on vacation this week. I, too, noticed that it's been thin this week. I just assume it's because of vacations.

[Kt3]

Man I would post more on here but I've given up.. I posted on three different VB forums asking for some help and no one's replied yet, and I even shamelessly bumped the threads and still no reply. So why should I post asking for help anymore.

What's worse is I'm not doing some insane stuff, I just needed some help with functions that prase strings. Specifically, getting them to stop without giving me a length or index error.

Even worse is I'm not doing homework and I don't have a job coding, I'm just trying to learn VB.NET as a hobby and I've only been learning it for 3 weeks so why is it that my problem might be too complicated for some people?

[nemaroller]

I don't know, the VB6 area still seems pretty active, I think since we use .Net all day, we just assume everyone is on board.

Most notably absent, MegaTron and dynamicSysop...

Anyway, I haven't seen many threads at all go unanswered in this forum, except for kt3's.

And the reason why no one has responded to kt3's?
Well, I wasn't clear what his problem really was?

" I still can't figure out how to get this code to stop when it reaches the end of the string and return the final result to bdecode(x) then back to the calling function in my main subroutine." -kt3

[Andy]

Originally posted by Kt3
Man I would post more on here but I've given up.. I posted on three different VB forums asking for some help and no one's replied yet, and I even shamelessly bumped the threads and still no reply. So why should I post asking for help anymore.

What's worse is I'm not doing some insane stuff, I just needed some help with functions that prase strings. Specifically, getting them to stop without giving me a length or index error.

Even worse is I'm not doing homework and I don't have a job coding, I'm just trying to learn VB.NET as a hobby and I've only been learning it for 3 weeks so why is it that my problem might be too complicated for some people?

well, I can see for starters, that you posted on the eigth which falls directly into my "vacation spectrum theory". I haven't seen posts by ANY of the other regulars. I don't think your posts are going ignored. People are just taking a break.

secondly, your code is unformatted. That is a deterent for most viewers. It's hard to read such long code when it is unformatted.

Give yourself time. This forum is one of the best to get your questins answered. Having one post unanswered isn't the end of the world.

[RealisticGraphics]

My guess, the people using .Net right now are pretty good at it and just don't have a lot of questions. A lot of users haven't made the leap over to .Net yet and a good percentage probably never will.

[alextyx]

I'm here, in VB.NET section, because I began to use visual language, coming from firmrware (mainly Assembler for 8051 e Z8002 ), in 2003 and I thought that the last one version of VB.NET were the best to begin. Some friends of mine (VB6 developers), say to me that there is not a real gain to change in VB.NET. Their opinion is : If I have to stress myself with a complicated Object Oriented Language, perhaps it's better to use a kind of 'C'. The result is, just as RealistiGraphics told, the most of VB6 developers will remain on that platform! The future of VB.NET is not clear, for me. Perhaps, only a 'brute force' action by Microsoft, can push it. Do you agree?
(beg your pardon for my english! )

[Kt3]

Thanks for the replies gentlemen, I figured out my problem and am well on my way

I should note that it is worth your while to switch to .NET if you're a VB6 programmer. There are a lot of programmers out there that seem to think VB6 isn't a real language, because it isn't OO by nature and doesn't support multithreading. VB.NET puts you in the mindset to do both (which is why some people have a hard time switching over, who aren't used to the concept of OOP). You aren't wasting your time either, because VB.NET is really just a pretty way to write C#. For you see, when all is said and done, all the .NET languages compile using MSIL into the same EXE code result. I'm sure you've heard it all before, but the thing is there is really no advantage per se to using C# over VB. Some old fashioned folks are quick to tell you otherwise, but perfomance testing shows that if C# is quicker the margin is so small it shouldn't even be an issue.

And if you want to learn C# and the syntax, VB is a great way to start. I am in the process of switching over to C# for the sole reason that I think the syntax lets you write quicker, because VB, being the syntax friendly language that it is, is simply too wordy in my opinion. But if you have no problem typing some extra words here and there, that's great. Once you hit C# and learn OOP in .NET the proper way, anything's possible from there.. Java, C++, whatever. There's no denying that .NET gave VB programmers more respect in the community and the tools they need to make themselves more versatile and marketable.

[alextyx]

Dear KT3, I hope you were right, because if it is so, my choice for VB.NET results better. As you can easily understand from my previous post, I'm a beginner in this world. Probably you are right, but someone says there is more capability to use APIs working in C#. I have not an idea, at the moment. Perhaps in a year or two, I'll have acquired sufficient experience to make my opinion. At the moment, I listen to yours try to learn something.

[caferda]

Hey man, I would like to thank to you for your advice about my post, I want to send more posts but I'm so new in .Net that... finally don't worry be happy