Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET

From	Schmidt <sss@online.de>
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Subject	Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET
Date	2012-01-11 21:02 +0100
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Am 10.01.2012 18:14, schrieb Tom Shelton:

> ...  but, .net is not dead.

It's now in the same way "not dead", as VB6 is...
Welcome to the club!

Really funny, that we are back now, to the combination
of 'C++ and COM' as the only recommended way to develop
serious and new "native Desktop-Apps" (because any other
(MS-)tools cannot be considered "future-proof" or
"safe with regards to line-of-code-investments").

IIRC we had this C++/COM combination already some 15 years ago,
followed up by VB5/6-RAD to "develop COM-Apps even faster".
So VB6 is yet a good tool, working "directly on top" of
the current "state of the art tech".

That much to selling us .NET as "technologic innovation"
and urging us "to move on".
Seems that the serious code-bases will always be C/C++ (as the
best compromise, to abstract a language from the hardware).

All the rest on top of it is (at least in MS' Book)
apparently considered "throw-away software".

The invention of COM, as a kind of objectoriented,
(class-hosting and selfdescribing) library-format
seems at least a well-surviving idea. As was VB-classic,
as a glue-language for COMponents as well. It does
its job even today, and will do so also on Win8.

Aside from, that the new RAD-kid on the "blog" is now
apparently the HTML/JS combination (and accompanying new
IDEs, to "glue stuff together this way", including
automatic uploads into the great new world of App-Stores).

Let's see, how this works out - and what VB6/COM-based
Apps on the Win8-Desktop are good for in the long run.

Olaf

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Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> - 2012-01-04 18:23 -0500
  Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2012-01-05 09:25 -0500
  Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET "Thorsten Albers" <gudea@gmx.de> - 2012-01-05 16:33 +0000
  Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET Helmut_Meukel <Helmut_Meukel@bn-hof.invalid> - 2012-01-05 22:32 +0100
    Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET "Auric__" <not.my.real@email.address> - 2012-01-06 02:50 +0000
  Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET Tony Toews <ttoews@telusplanet.net> - 2012-01-09 20:29 -0700
    Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2012-01-10 09:22 -0500
      Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET Tom Shelton <tom_shelton@comcast.invalid> - 2012-01-10 10:14 -0700
        Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2012-01-10 17:04 -0500
        Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET Schmidt <sss@online.de> - 2012-01-11 21:02 +0100
          Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET "Henning" <computer_hero@coldmail.com> - 2012-01-12 15:33 +0100
          Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET Tom Shelton <tom_shelton@comcast.invalid> - 2012-01-12 09:34 -0700
            Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET Schmidt <sss@online.de> - 2012-01-13 20:17 +0100
              Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET Tom Shelton <tom_shelton@comcast.invalid> - 2012-01-13 13:22 -0700
                Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2012-01-13 16:07 -0500
                Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET Tom Shelton <tom_shelton@comcast.invalid> - 2012-01-13 14:14 -0700
                Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2012-01-13 20:58 -0500
                Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET Tony Toews <ttoews@telusplanet.net> - 2012-01-19 19:10 -0700
                Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET Schmidt <sss@online.de> - 2012-01-14 00:12 +0100
                Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET "Henning" <computer_hero@coldmail.com> - 2012-01-14 00:24 +0100
                Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET Schmidt <sss@online.de> - 2012-01-14 00:58 +0100

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