Re: Is .net faster tht vb6?

Frank Adam wrote:

> On 5 Dec 2005 15:57:00 -0800, reyescar11@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>>to connect to the Web and use web services. The disadvantage of VB. Net
>>is that use the .Net framework so if you dont have it applications will
>>not run and if you are ussing an old OS perhaps the application will
>>not run; it needs more requirments. That give some points to VB6.
>>
> While i don't like the 20+ Meg runtime, i have to say, nothing have
> changed though.
> C applications without it's satellite DLLs won't run either, VB
> classic itself won't except even a higher version DLL, for instance
> VB3 requires vbrun300 despite one having the VB6 runtime on the
> system.
>
>>If your requirements are biggers and you dont have the problem of an
>>old plattform VB .Net is the solution for you; VB6 is not a bad
>>paltform only is going to be moved because the proccesing requirements
>>of today, VB .Net is specially designed thinking in a globalized
>>infraestructure, VB6 can solve your problems if you will build short
>>applications so the programing time will be fewer.
>>
> IIRC, .Net will run on systems down to Win98. It's just the dev
> environment which needs 2K+.
>

..NET apps can run on Win98 - though, not all features of the runtime
libraires are supported.... In the end, the company I work for decided to
just plain bag 9x support. 9x's memory management, just wasn't up to the
task when it really came down to it. We only support 2K and XP now...
Yeah!

--
Tom Shelton
.

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