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Re: The Beep Function.

From	"blank" <blank@blankety.blank.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.basic.visual.misc
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Subject	Re: The Beep Function.
Date	2012-01-20 05:17 +1100
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"Peter Nolan" <peter.nolan40@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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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.

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