Moving from VB to VB.net

[mel_flynn]

Can someone tell me if it's hard to adapt to vb.net after using vb all the time? I want to start developing in Vb.net now and am wondering if it's very different from VB. Also can I just purchase an upgrade CD?

[DeadEyes]

A good grounding in OO helps, it's also worth considering VB.Net to be a different language.

Some free books are available here if the links are dead try googling the names of the books and you might find them somewhere else.

[kleinma]

just learn it now while the technology is still new... .NET has been around for a few years now, but it is still sitting in the dark waiting to become mainstream for commercial app deployment. Most .NET apps are written for internal software at companies.

When MS releases windows XP sp2, it will contain the framework for those who didnt download it, and so will windows longhorn.

you should read a book or 2 on the subject though because in addition to new features in the development environment, there are new concepts you need to learn like inheritance and function overriding/overloading, etc...

What I have been doing to learn, is I took one of my VB6 applications that we use here at work that was about medium complexity, and I have been rewriting it using .net, using the new features of .net wherever I can. For one thing data access is a hell of a lot faster than old ADO. I can populate a listview in 1/4 the time it took in VB6

[mendhak]

Originally posted by mel_flynn
Can someone tell me if it's hard to adapt to vb.net after using vb all the time? I want to start developing in Vb.net now and am wondering if it's very different from VB.

If I were to tell you that I have been able to do it, wouldn't that be an argument convincing enough?

[wossname]

Originally posted by mel_flynn
Can someone tell me if it's hard to adapt to vb.net after using vb all the time? I want to start developing in Vb.net now and am wondering if it's very different from VB. Also can I just purchase an upgrade CD?

I started in VB4 and the graduated to VB6. Then I bought VB.net standard and it totally owns VB6

You might think VB6 is powerful (and it was compared to VB4) but when you see Vb.net in action you will never go back. At work the other day another coder came up to me and asked me what was so good about VB.net.

1 minute later and I had written the code to make frmMain circular and 35% transparent! He was suitable impressed by my 3 lines of Vb.net code. That would have taken ages in vb6 (at least 5 minutes )

There is no upgrade, because the .Net framework is a whole new bag.

VB.Net pwns vb6.

[Mike Hildner]

There is no upgrade, because the .Net framework is a whole new bag.

I thought there was an upgrade price. I had VB6 pro and upgraded to VS pro for, I think $600. Have enterprise architect now, though

[Pirate]

I hate to be repetitive but yes , you search for old threads....This question has been asked many times