VB6 vs. VB.Net

[Nitro]

Hello,

I don't know if this is true but I just talked to a consultant at QuickStart Technology today. QuickStart is one of America leading Microsoft Education Program. Anyway, the consultant or the professor there told me that VB.Net is very DIFFERENT from the current VB. Also, he said that VB.Net Beta1 will be different from VB.Net Beta2.

Has anyone played around with Beta1 yet? How much different is it?

I know he said that the naming convention for the file extentions are different.

[Lee M.]

I have the Beta. I can tell you this:
There are numerous (I am still finding more) changes to the syntax
And intrinsic functions. There is no more Format,("Currency")
You have to set it to a float point variable (Like C++)
There are Long, Short, Float, and more. If you have not used C or C++ it will take some re schooling. The word on the street is vb6 will one day be gone, and all those nice apps we wrote will not compile in VB.Net.

[SteveCRM]

Personally I think they are going to far with this language. Just because they created it, they are coming out with new versions left and right! It's now just a race to learn the new versions of a language that isn't used much. I think instead of making all of these syntax changes, they should take out the runtimes!

[parksie]

If you don't want runtimes use C++, m80

Anyway, .NET has about 8mb's worth of runtimes on it anyway, but since those will be an intrinsic part of the OS it won't be any trouble for the developer

[Nitro]

Parksie,

I heard that VB.Net can produce standalone exe.

Is that true?

[parksie]

As far as I can tell (I don't know from a fact) it appears that way. This could change past Beta 1, but it looks like as long as the .NET framework is installed (takes up a whole CD at the moment but will be with the OS) then there's no problem.

It looks like all the code is turned into an Intermediate Language anyway so they all use the same runtimes (common language runtimes).

[Nitro]

That is exactly what I heard too. It is running throught the same compiler or something like that.

I am installing VB.Net soon and will update you guys if I find anything different.

It is just such a pain in the rear because I spent days and nights for the past 4 years doing research on this language. Out of no where, total new concepts are introduce and other concepts are taken out.

Thanks Parksie