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From: Tom Serface on 23 Feb 2010 13:41 I can't figure out why VB is even still in use. From my perspective VB.NET is not really similar to VB6 and C# is so much easier to learn and is so similar to C++ and Java that it makes moving between the syntaxes pretty easy. I think the release of VB.NOT ticked off more VB6 users. I would be interested to see a statistic on how many people are still using VB6 (probably similar to VC6). Of course, some people are still using Turbo Pascal. Tom "Ajay Kalra" <ajaykalra(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message news:4f57b2fc-59c6-4350-a6fc-55e45b6ef070(a)h12g2000vbd.googlegroups.com... > MSFT didnt need VB.Net. C# was enough. They had to give a carrot to VB > crowd which turned out to be useless as core VB crowd couldnt really > care less about .Net. Those guys are much worse than native C++ vs > managed crowd :-) > > -- > Ajay
From: Tom Serface on 23 Feb 2010 13:42 One interesting twist that your note sparked in my head was that users programming VBA applications may be able to use VB.NET easier than C#. There are certainly a lot of them. Tom "Giovanni Dicanio" <giovanniDOTdicanio(a)REMOVEMEgmail.com> wrote in message news:eOqLrdKtKHA.3656(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > To my knowledge, the only thing that VB.NET could do better than C# was > managing COM late-binding (i.e. IDispatch) in a programmer's friendly way. > > This could be come in handy when automating Microsoft Office. > This blog post clearly shows the advantage of using VB.NET vs. C# in that > particular scenario: > > "Back to Basics: var != Dim" > http://www.hanselman.com/blog/BackToBasicsVarDim.aspx > > However, in .NET 4 the features of VB.NET and C# were aligned together, > and my understanding is that now C# supports COM late-binding in a much > better (and programmer's friendly) way.
From: Joseph M. Newcomer on 23 Feb 2010 14:06 Sadly, COM support in MFC is really horrible; the nasty surprises I got when I built the PowerPoint Indexer, and the undocumented exceptions I had to handle, made the whole thing a real pain to use. I consider one of the goals of usability to make MFC more COM/automation ready. joe On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:44:04 +0100, "Giovanni Dicanio" <giovanniDOTdicanio(a)REMOVEMEgmail.com> wrote: > >"Ajay Kalra" <ajaykalra(a)yahoo.com> ha scritto nel messaggio >news:4f57b2fc-59c6-4350-a6fc-55e45b6ef070(a)h12g2000vbd.googlegroups.com... > >> MSFT didnt need VB.Net. C# was enough. > >To my knowledge, the only thing that VB.NET could do better than C# was >managing COM late-binding (i.e. IDispatch) in a programmer's friendly way. > >This could be come in handy when automating Microsoft Office. >This blog post clearly shows the advantage of using VB.NET vs. C# in that >particular scenario: > >"Back to Basics: var != Dim" >http://www.hanselman.com/blog/BackToBasicsVarDim.aspx > >However, in .NET 4 the features of VB.NET and C# were aligned together, and >my understanding is that now C# supports COM late-binding in a much better >(and programmer's friendly) way. > >Giovanni > > > Joseph M. Newcomer [MVP] email: newcomer(a)flounder.com Web: http://www.flounder.com MVP Tips: http://www.flounder.com/mvp_tips.htm
From: David Scambler on 23 Feb 2010 19:17 David Wilkinson <no-reply(a)effisols.com> wrote in news:O7dQJD9sKHA.1708(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl: .... There are also > > http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/vclanguage/threads/ > > http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/Vsexpressvc/threads > Case in point. In my newsreader, not maximized, I can see 25 headers and a large text window. If I scroll I can quickly scan over 200 headers. If I click the links above, in a maximized window I can see 8 headers. If I scroll I can see another 12. If I want to see more I have to scroll down and click to next page, next page, next page... I just do not have time for that. dave
From: David Wilkinson on 24 Feb 2010 11:58
David Scambler wrote: > David Wilkinson <no-reply(a)effisols.com> wrote in > news:O7dQJD9sKHA.1708(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl: > ... > There are also >> >> http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/vclanguage/threads/ >> >> http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/Vsexpressvc/threads >> > > Case in point. In my newsreader, not maximized, I can see 25 headers and a > large text window. If I scroll I can quickly scan over 200 headers. > > If I click the links above, in a maximized window I can see 8 headers. If I > scroll I can see another 12. If I want to see more I have to scroll down > and click to next page, next page, next page... > > I just do not have time for that. I do not disagree with you. I was just saying where the MSDN Visual C++ forums are. -- David Wilkinson Visual C++ MVP |