Re: What is the status of VB6 & DOT.NET ?
- From: "Steve Gerrard" <mynamehere@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 23:50:48 -0800
"---Pete---" <hthXXXX@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 08:45:26 -0800, "Steve Gerrard"
<mynamehere@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Steve Gerrard,
Even though MS has released a 2005 version of Visual Studio,
it does not tell me what percentage of basic programmers are
using VB6 versus VB .NET . I'm just trying to get an idea of how
successful or unsuccessful MS was a getting people to switch
off of VB6 or.. if making the swich to .NET was a bad idea if MS
seems to be abandoning their marketing efforts for the product,
as someone recently told me was the case.
My first post was somewhat tongue-in-cheek, I guess I should have added a smiley
:}
I think a better question is - which software development system is MS
supporting and further developing? The answer to that is .Net. Then you can
instead ask how many people are abandoning MS development tools for other
products, platforms, and systems. The notion that MS would give up producing
their development system is silly.
How many are jumping ship? Depends on where they work, and who their target is.
Lots of web development is on other platforms. Despite efforts to dummy it down,
MS will have a tough time selling .Net based programming as a simple, carefree
system for beginners - it is just too elaborate for that to be realistic. I
think lots of companies have or will adopt it for serious in-house
server/intranet/special-purpose software, as well as for interfacing with ERP
systems and the like. As for commercial apps, I don't know, is there any money
in that anymore?
I see it as an addition to the toolbox -suitable for some things, not so much
for others. At work I have VB6, VS 2003, and VS 2005, all living happily
together, all for in-house development. The databasey-serverish apps go to .Net;
the techy engineering apps and quicky utilities go to VB6. That's my story, and
I'm sticking to it - for a while, anyway...
.
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