Quote Originally Posted by Elroy View Post
DataMiser,

You can debate all you want, but there's a reason nobody uses VB5 or VB4 or VB3 or VB2 or VB-DOS, and this VB6 forums is still extremely active, at times being more active than the .NET forum. It's because there was a clear and easy upgrade path from all those prior languages, and that's just not true between VB6 and .NET.
Actually there are some here who still use VB5 and I am sure there are those out there who still use some of the others though probably a pretty small number as only VB4 and later are actually suitable for Windows 9x and later OS.

As for the upgrade path yes from one version to the next with the exception of VBDos. Jumping over a version could be a bit trickier. Going from 3 to 6 could be very tricky.

Anyway. Yes there are many choices of language to choose from and many are better for a specific purpose than others but the fact remains that if you are a BASIC coder then VB.Net is much more simple to understand and become productive in. It can do pretty much the same as C# but does it with a BASIC syntax which every BASIC coder should know and understand already.

As for the petition 11,000 is not very many really and of those 11,000 I would venture to guess that more than half of them never used VB professionally and/or never owned a legit copy of it in the first place.