Cost of Visual Basic Enterprise

[aStrat]

Hello,

I am new here and I wasn't sure if this was the correct forum to post in, but I was just wondering what a copy of Visual Basic Enterprise would cost and what stores I might be able to buy it at? I havn't been programming for a while and I want to start back up.

thanks

[Tamgovb]

Look here, with certainty you will find what you look for

http://search.ebay.com/search/search...sic+Enterprise

Tamgovb

[si_the_geek]

Welcome to VBForums!

This is the right forum

I would actually recommend against VB6 - the support from Microsoft has moved on to VB.Net, which you can obtain legally for free (look at the VB section of their web site for "Express Edition"). There are many more built in features, and you can be sure that any apps you make will work for future versions of Windows, and take advantage of them properly (the same cannot be said for VB6).

Unfortunately for VB6 you are unlikely to find a legal copy at a decent price, even second hand (which is the only real option - MS stopped selling it years ago). Most of the ones that I have seen with the licence documentation etc go for about £200 ($300), and others are dubious at best (pirate CD's etc ).

[iPrank]

I agree with Si.
Don't invest your money and time on VB6.

[aStrat]

Ok that's fine, but I don't know VB.net... is it similar to VB6?

[si_the_geek]

Sort of.. the main concepts are the same, but there are also lots of differences.

Many people work with both (for different projects) and dont seem to have a problem switching between them.

We have a busy VB.Net forum which has lots of useful info to help you learn - especially in the sticky threads at the top.

[iPrank]

Before picking up VB.NET, see what people say : http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=389729

We have a C# section too.

[sigid]

...VB.Net is to VB6 as VB1 is to GW-BASIC...

... if you HAVE to use .NET (and you really want to pause and think about this), you'd be better off learning the language it was actually designed for (and which most of the "help" examples on MSDN are written in): C#

...the resounding lack of "how to" books for VB.NET (as compared to any previous version of VB) attest to its utter lack of popularity, and thus (as per Microsoft's SOP) will likely disappear soon - just my humble opinion...

...Per Microsoft's website: Visual STudio 6 had almost 6.5 million licensed users, while VS.NET has less than half that many (and remember that VS.NET started out 5 whole years ago)...

[RobDog888]

But VB 6 has started out about 9 years ago and if you count VB 1-5 then its allot longer. Plus, VB.NET didnt come out until 2002 so its only about 4 years old. Quite good for 4 years.

[sigid]

...sorry to disagree, RobDog888...

When you have 6.5 million users, and you offer them no other upgrade choice at all while basically saying "the technology you are using is pretty much obsolete" (the clear inference being that it is going to "go away" at some future point) and *even then* less than half your customer base decides to follow you...no, not pretty good. Pretty bad, actually - again, just my humble opinion.

[Al42]

True, sigid. There are a few million people who will continue to use VB6 whether MS "supports" it or not, as long as it allows them to produce what they need to produce. It's not going away soon.