Continue with VB6 or new launguage?

[Hack]

Moved to General Developer

I would definitely "move" to new technology - .Net.

Learning T-SQL, PL/SQL and similar variants is also worthwhile.

I agree with both of these.

Regardless of whether you go the .NET route or the C++ route, SQL, in one form or another, is essential if you are doing to be doing any kind of work with databases.

[alex_read]

In a year I will begin on a Software Development education here in Denmark, and in the end I would like to be a gaming developer, but that will proberly only be 5 or 6 years into the future..

Think you just read the top bit just as I did. He wants to get into gaming so advising on .Net or to a extent SQL isn't going to be of much relevance for him...

[leinad31]

Think you just read the top bit just as I did. He wants to get into gaming so advising on .Net or to a extent SQL isn't going to be of much relevance for him...

Your only thinking about the GUI aspects of gaming... do you really think MMPORG servers keep everything in memory?

[alex_read]

Not at all, but I think if the poor guy goes to any successful gaming manufacturer with a CV and attitude of "well I've learnt .Net and SQL, and I'm just learning C++ too", that he wouldn't get him very far. Yes SQL has it's place of course, which is why I put "to an extent", but if I am advising someone on which programming language(s) to learn for gaming, I would argue that he should be pointed to C++ all the way as this would help his career immensly.