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  1. Dec 28th, 2009, 06:01 PM #1
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    Resolved [RESOLVED] MS Visual Which One?

    I'm interested in making a small application and want to use one of MS' free Visual Something Express IDEs. I don't know which one though (Basic, C# or C++), and was hoping for some advice. I would be a newbie to any one of the three, but difficulty is not a deterrent. I'm a web developer (this would be a personal project) and I'm not likely to switch career paths anytime soon, but I'd like to learn the most "desired" (valuable? popular?) of the three.

    Any input is appreciated.
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    Re: MS Visual Which One?

    Well, I would think it has to do with what type of thing you want to achieve with your program. Visual Basic is a high level language which means that it is more user friendly but not as friendly to the machine. C# and C++ on the other hand would probably be medium to low level because they can interact with both user and machine in a friendly way.

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    Re: MS Visual Which One?

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    Re: MS Visual Which One?

    .NET is .NET is .NET .... pick a language and use it. If you are more familair with VB, then go with VB.NET... if you're more comfortable with C/C++, then go with C#.NET. Once you get past the language syntax, they are virtually the same in that it's all based on the framework. VB tends to be more verbose and it's structure lends itself to picking things up quickly (which is part of it's charm). There is very little one language can do that the other can't.

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    Re: MS Visual Which One?

    I'm not concerned with what the program needs to do - basic stuff that all of 'em could do. Heck, I could make it a web app if I wanted to... but I don't really want to.

    I've done some VBScript for ASP (Classic) pages, but I'd take PHP over it any day. So maybe that's a point toward C?

    Thanks for the input!
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    Re: MS Visual Which One?

    I've done some VBScript for ASP (Classic) pages
    ASP.Net is available for webprogramming...
    Microsoft's Visual Studio 20xx Express Editions are there.. which is free....

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    Re: MS Visual Which One?

    I took a brief look into ASP.Net to see if it was something I wanted to learn, and decided that it was not.

    I tried going with C#, and I think I better understand what you mean about ".NET is .NET", techgnome. All the languages are interfacing with the same Windows stuff, they just differ in their syntax. Sorry if that's really basic - I'm new to this.

    In any case, I'm off to a decent start now.
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