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Re: The Beep Function.

From	Peter Nolan <peter.nolan40@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.basic.visual.misc
Subject	Re: The Beep Function.
Date	2012-01-20 03:54 -0800
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On Jan 19, 6:17 pm, "blank" <bl...@blankety.blank.com> wrote:
> "Peter Nolan" <peter.nola...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:4d198377-aa7a-4832-b6c3-d10007a951af@do4g2000vbb.googlegroups.com...
> On Jan 18, 6:42 pm, "blank" <bl...@blankety.blank.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > > You really are going out of your way to annoy people here aren't you?
>
> > > This NG is for the original VB only and that means versions up to VB6
> > > inclusive.
>
> > > The majority consensus here is that the versions of "VB" after 6 are not
> > > a
> > > logical progression from VB6 and as such do not merit the name "VB".
> > > While
> > > the .NET versions of "VB" may well be adequate languages in their own
> > > right they are not an evolution from VB6, there is some similarity in
> > > keywords and the syntax at first glance is similar but that is as far as
> > > it goes. Converting a program that is significantly more complex than
> > > "Hello World" from VB6 to VB.NET is so tricky that in the majority of
> > > cases it's less effort to start again from scratch.
>
> > > DaveO
>
> > I don't agree that he is, Dave. What he says has plenty of valid points in
> > it, and it doesn't annoy me in the slightest. .
>
> > On the other hand, I think your encapsulation of the dreaded dot.net is
> > spot
> > on!
>
> Hello Blank,
>
> Many thanks for that kind remark. I read up as best I could about .net
> and just like I cannot understand what a class is I couldn't
> understand what .net is all about. I thought that VB contained in M$'s
> express version of Visual Studio is just an upgrade of VB 6 but it
> appears that I have no idea what is going on really. I have MS Visual
> Studio.NET 2003 on CD that I installed and then uninstalled on my
> 1519UK in the hopes I could write some very simple programs in VC++
> but I remain gloriously confused about the whole thing.
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter.
>
> Hi Peter. VisualBasic 6 (sometimes called Classic Visual Basic) is a high
> level language with a superb Integrated Design Environment and is a
> development from VB5, itself a development from earlier versions. Some years
> ago Microsoft issued Dot.net (Visual Studio.Net is an example of that) and
> although they called it Visual Basic, it was completely new, and to my mind
> quite useless (does not have proper printer support amongst other things).
> They dropped the REAL visual basic, of which VB6 is the last (for now...)
> and thus marooned millions of programmers worldwide. However VB6 still works
> up to Windows 8 (and possibly beyond) so there are plenty of people coding
> in it. I was lucky enough to buy a fully licenced copy of VB6 Professional
> and I absolutely love it.


Hello Blank,

I would hope to learn a little bit about .net at some point just to be
clued in more than I am.

Regards,

Peter.

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