Quote Originally Posted by chris128 View Post
I did a tiny bit of VB6 programming just at home when I was about 16 (and an even smaller bit of C++ when I was about 14 actually) but when I started to get a bit more into programming a couple of years ago I just got Visual Studio 2005 and have used that or 2008 ever since. I guess cos I spent so little time with VB6 I didnt really appreciate the difference but now that I am quite comfortable with basic .NET stuff it seems awful trying to do the odd thing in VB6.
Like others have said, Vista already contains the .NET framework, although annoyingly its version 3.0 not 3.5, so any apps that target .NET 2.0 will run on Vista with no prerequisite installs etc. Windows 7 I assume will contain .NET 3.5, so again that will be a pain when we all start using .NET 4.0 but oh well, its better than no framework
Vista shipping w/ only up to the 3.0 Framework is only a pain if you use stuff in the 3.5 Framework. I haven't seen the need to use stuff in the 3.0 Framework, let alone the 3.5 Framework yet.

Although Win7 shipping with the 4.0 Framework is more of a big deal to me cause there's things in the 4.0 Framework that'll make a huge amount of my work easier so I'll be moving to that, I just hope that the VS 2010 IDE is fixed up by the time it's RTM.