Quote Originally Posted by Half
The standalone app is always approx 14MB bigger. I didn't know that in order to target more clients, the programs not only have to run without the framework but also to be small. Do they also have to be black & white for those with monochromes or mouseless for the majority with broken mice out there?
The point is, why should a programmer buy a third-party tool to make VB.NET do something that VB6 does natively? Unless VB6 does not allow you to do what VB.NET does, there's no point in throwing away the experience you may have accumulated in the last ten years. With .NET you have to start from scratch and 90 percent of your previous knowledge becomes useless.