[Easy_Rider]

Hi! I'm making my way through several VB 6 books but none of them is recomended in the thread about books. I searched in stores for those books but vb.net books are everywhere in shelfes, about 90% of VB books.
I would like to know, since I'm starting from scratch, if it would be better for me to start learning vb.net now, or if it's better to learn vb 6 first and then eventually go for vb.net?

thank you

[Pookie]

This question has been asked a million times in the past, do a search on the forums here for it and you'll find all the info you need. (And try the dotnet forum too)

[Easy_Rider]

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Originally Posted by Pookie
This question has been asked a million times in the past, do a search on the forums here for it and you'll find all the info you need. (And try the dotnet forum too)

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I know, I did the search and I saw this same reply a million times

[Pookie]

Great! Now you have a million answers to it!

[Easy_Rider]

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Originally Posted by Pookie
Great! Now you have a million answers to it!

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thanks for your info, really
I still haven't found the one, the primitive post, the one that got an answer...
from that first post, all the others are "check vb.net extreme forum" or "this question has been asked i times (i=i+1) ."

I would like to have the vb 6ers perspective. If I go to extreme vb.net they will all tell me how great vb.net is.
Microsof has to make up new products to keep money geting in... You canot find vb.6 compilers easily, most of them are vb.net.
People 'throw away' their old vb6 books and have to refresh their library with new vb.net books.
I just want to avoid a painfull transition from one platform to the other, and understand if that transition will be inevitable or opcional.

[Pookie]

Depends on what you wish to do.

For people to use a .net program, they will need the .net framework installed, which I gather is not a great lot, probably still very tiny like 1%-5% of all computers out there, so if you want to write stuff for the majority of the market still, go with VB6, if you want to plan for the future, you can go with .net, not that i'm saying .net is the future, as I believe another new framework will replace .net as well soon! So no harm in learning VB6 first.

[Easy_Rider]

thanks

[lebb]

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