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

From	GS <gs@somewhere.net>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.basic.visual.misc, microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.vb
Subject	Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET
Date	2012-01-12 23:58 -0500
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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Henning submitted this idea :
> "Schmidt" <sss@online.de> skrev i meddelandet 
> news:jekpsc$e1c$1@dont-email.me...
>> 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
>>
>
> Also code safety:
> Your .NET decompiler alternative has arrived! Telerik JustDecompile is a 
> powerful yet free-of-charge tool, which enables you to effortlessly explore 
> and analyze compiled .NET assemblies at the click of a button.
>
> /Henning

This is why LogicNP has available Crypto Obfuscator to thwart 
decompiling .Net apps.

-- 
Garry

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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 GS <gs@somewhere.net> - 2012-01-05 14:57 -0500
  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 GS <gs@somewhere.net> - 2012-01-12 23:58 -0500
          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 GS <gs@somewhere.net> - 2012-01-13 14:31 -0500
              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
              Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET GS <gs@somewhere.net> - 2012-01-13 19:35 -0500
                Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET GS <gs@somewhere.net> - 2012-01-13 22:46 -0500
                Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET Tom Shelton <tom_shelton@comcast.invalid> - 2012-01-13 23:50 -0700
                Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET GS <gs@somewhere.net> - 2012-01-14 14:31 -0500
                Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET Tom Shelton <tom_shelton@comcast.invalid> - 2012-01-14 22:47 -0700
                Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET GS <gs@somewhere.net> - 2012-01-15 01:26 -0500
                Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET Tom Shelton <tom_shelton@comcast.invalid> - 2012-01-15 07:54 -0700
                Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET GS <gs@somewhere.net> - 2012-01-15 14:09 -0500
                Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET Tom Shelton <tom_shelton@comcast.invalid> - 2012-01-15 16:47 -0700
                Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET Tom Shelton <tom_shelton@comcast.invalid> - 2012-01-15 16:49 -0700
                Re: Upgrading older VB programs (sans Project Files) to VB.NET GS <gs@somewhere.net> - 2012-01-15 21:16 -0500

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