Comments on: Visual Basic 2005 http://blog.leefindlow.com/2007/03/visual-basic-2005/ Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:39:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Huw Leslie http://blog.leefindlow.com/2007/03/visual-basic-2005/comment-page-1/#comment-28 Huw Leslie Sun, 11 Mar 2007 00:30:38 +0000 http://blog.leefindlow.com/?p=33#comment-28 VB6 is actually the only programming language I've ever been properly proficient in - I haven't used it for about 3 years, though. One thing I think they changed in VB 2005 is the easy, simple, printing. In vb6 you could go printer.print = "Text to be printed" (or similar), and it would print on the default printer. I always thought that was brilliantly simple. VB6 is actually the only programming language I’ve ever been properly proficient in – I haven’t used it for about 3 years, though.

One thing I think they changed in VB 2005 is the easy, simple, printing. In vb6 you could go

printer.print = “Text to be printed”

(or similar), and it would print on the default printer. I always thought that was brilliantly simple.

]]> By: Peter Upfold http://blog.leefindlow.com/2007/03/visual-basic-2005/comment-page-1/#comment-27 Peter Upfold Sat, 10 Mar 2007 18:47:09 +0000 http://blog.leefindlow.com/?p=33#comment-27 I've done a reasonable bit of VB 2005 myself actually and it's a pretty nice language as languages go. If you do want to build cross-platform applications with .NET though, learn C#. You can't use GUIs you build in Visual Studio on both platforms, but with a bit of trickery you can make GUI apps for both Windows and Linux with Mono and GTK#. I haven't tried this myself, though, so I can't say how easy it is to do. While I'm on the subject, I have to say that from my little bit of playing around with Objective-C and Cocoa on the Mac, that is a very fine environment too. Unfortuantely it suffers from the same single platform issue as VB. I’ve done a reasonable bit of VB 2005 myself actually and it’s a pretty nice language as languages go.

If you do want to build cross-platform applications with .NET though, learn C#. You can’t use GUIs you build in Visual Studio on both platforms, but with a bit of trickery you can make GUI apps for both Windows and Linux with Mono and GTK#. I haven’t tried this myself, though, so I can’t say how easy it is to do.

While I’m on the subject, I have to say that from my little bit of playing around with Objective-C and Cocoa on the Mac, that is a very fine environment too. Unfortuantely it suffers from the same single platform issue as VB.

]]> By: Adam http://blog.leefindlow.com/2007/03/visual-basic-2005/comment-page-1/#comment-26 Adam Sat, 10 Mar 2007 17:00:36 +0000 http://blog.leefindlow.com/?p=33#comment-26 VB6 was a nice, cute programming language which cut out the complexities in which Java, C, Python etc... all have. Click, draw, program. That is why I like VB. However I have not sampled the new edition of VB, mainly due to last time I researched it there was a great lack of resources available. VB6 seemed to have much more documentation. VB6 was a nice, cute programming language which cut out the complexities in which Java, C, Python etc… all have. Click, draw, program. That is why I like VB.

However I have not sampled the new edition of VB, mainly due to last time I researched it there was a great lack of resources available. VB6 seemed to have much more documentation.

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