visual basic 2008?

[Pouncer]

i thought the latest classical version of visual basic was 6.0

my friend just told me vb 2008 is out, i thought microsoft had stopped working on the vb6.0 stuff??

or is the vb2008 .NET orientated?

[Atheist]

Yes VB2008 is VB .Net, its just that the '.Net' part is omitted from the name because every new version of VB as of VB 2002 (I think its 2002, correct me if im wrong) is based on the .Net framework.

[Hack]

my friend just told me vb 2008 is out, i thought microsoft had stopped working on the vb6.0 stuff??

They have stopped working on VB6 as well as stopped supporting it. VB6 has been touched in years as Microsoft has spent all of its time and efforts on various versions of the .NET framework.

If you are still using VB6, I would suggest moving to .NET

You can get both 2005 and 2008 Express versions of VB free from Microsofts web site.

[RobDog888]

Note: 2008 is still in Beta 2 but will soon be released in a matter of weeks.

VB.NET is not considered a new version or upgrade as its more of a complete re-write of the language and the code is not compatible with VB6.

[Hack]

Note: 2008 is still in Beta 2 but will soon be released in a matter of weeks.

VB.NET is not considered a new version or upgrade as its more of a complete re-write of the language and the code is not compatible with VB6.

And the more I get into writing .NET code, the more I wish Microsoft had not called it VB.NET - the VB part seems to confuse the heck out of everyone that already isn't involved in using it.

[Merrion]

To make things worse, VB.Net 2008 is often referred to (at least internally) as VB9 and the putative next version is called VBX, or VB.vNext

Oh my poor head.

[RobDog888]

Yes, I read about the naming confusion with VB10/VBX. The X is supossed to be a roman numeral "10". Oh why do programers try to do marketing

[Al42]

And why does Marketing set release dates?