Comments on VB .NET

[abdul]

I just started learning VB .NET and I find a lot of difference even when starting a new project. The thing I like most about this version is that you can show transparent pictures on a picture box, and then can be really helpful building custom controls that support skins and stuff.
Other thing is that they have combined VC++, C#, and VB all into one IDE which create a kind of mess. And I also find this version harder and more complicated than previous ones because of its new OOP design(eg lotssss of inherited objects become confusing).
What would you rate VB .NET at comparing to the previous versions and do you think it's worth moving on to .NET right now or just stick with 6?

[hellswraith]

If you only have programmed in VB6 and lower, you probably going to hate it for awhile. Give it a good try. Learn OO and you will start to love the flexibility .Net gives you. All this new stuff is what made Java and C++ so popular among programmers. Give it a good try before giving up, my guess is you will like it.

[abdul]

Ya, I have done some programming in VB6 and that's why I find it pretty different and more overwritten. I get a sense that it's turning to be like C++ but in a little easier way (easy OOP).

[ac11965]

moving to .net is a bit hard, especially if you don't really understand oop.

but i think it's the greatest thing on earth since i created an asp application in one afternoon even though i have never even created a static web page in my life!

just keep trying and work thru the walkthroughs. you learn quite a lot! (and of course you can always ask questions here...)

[Thelonius]

I didn't like it at first either. Only when I needed the ASP.NET treeview control for one of my apps did I dive head first into .NET. It took about 3 weeks to get really comfortable, but now I can't imagine going back to VB6. There are a couple of things here and there I wish VBdN kept, like control arrays, but the new ways of doing old things, I found, end up being better in the end.