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  1. Aug 28th, 2009, 10:32 AM #1
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    Resolved [RESOLVED] is vb the best language for cellphone programing

    hi ive been reading alot about cellphone apps programing
    and was wondering witch programing language would be the best to use i hope its not vb.net he he

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    Re: is vb the best language for cellphone programing

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    Re: is vb the best language for cellphone programing

    For mobile apps programming I think you would like to evaluate the underlying mobile OS and then the platforms supported. Like for HTC you can use any of the .Net framework languages that work on .Net Compact framework.
    I have never coded on .Net CE and hence wouldn't be able to give you a comparative adv/disadv of languages. Hmm.. let me see if they have anything on MSDN about this.
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    Re: is vb the best language for cellphone programing

    .NET for sure. What does VB6 know about cell phones?

    You can probably answer this question for yourself by answering this question.

    When VB6 was released in 1998 at what stage was the cell phone technology? VB6 has nothing "built into it" that knows how to interact with one of those things.

    When VB.NET 2008 was released in 2008 at what stage was the cell phone technology? As rjv_rnjn has indicated, the framework on which the .NET languages rest have the kind of support you would be looking for (at least far more than VB6 has)

    There may be packages out there somewhere that could teach VB6 about cell phone technology and how to interact with it, but my approach to that would be "whats the point".
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    Re: is vb the best language for cellphone programing

    There was something (from MS) for VB6, but it disappeared many years ago. They replaced it with eVB (basically VBScript), but that is long gone too - and the last OS it supported was PocketPC 2002.

    There is more info about that in the "General" section of our Classic VB FAQs (in the FAQ forum).


    Note that .Net languages only support phones with Microsoft operating systems... for any others (including ones where the OS isn't published) it would be better to use Java, as virtually all modern phones support it.
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    Re: is vb the best language for cellphone programing

    How did VB6 get into this conversation in the first place?

    @flyhigh - what's wrong with VB.net?

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    Re: is vb the best language for cellphone programing

    Quote Originally Posted by techgnome View Post
    How did VB6 get into this conversation in the first place?
    Hack brought it up, and as he moved the thread I presume that was from the VB6 forum. (flyhigh's profile says VB6)
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    Re: is vb the best language for cellphone programing

    thanks yall ill have a look at net then
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    Re: [RESOLVED] is vb the best language for cellphone programing

    It was specifically for programming PDA apps (which would be the same language as mobile phones) that I moved from VB6 to .NET. Of course, once I had used .NET a bit, I dropped VB6 and would never willingly go back. It was a good language, but its day came and went.

    .NET does have some issues for mobile development (mostly size, though the large component is the framework, which is shared), but your only other good alternative is C/C++.
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