Re: New to group - questions re VB5

VB6 is basically the same as VB5 but with a few more functions (like Split,
Replace, etc.). IMO, the VB5 help is a bit better than VB6's :-) Myself,
although I also have VB6, I use VB5 for most of my production stuff... don't
know why, probably out of habit.

This group is a proper group for VB5 and VB6 (aka "VB Clasic"). The latest
version Microsoft has that is "labeled" as VB is of the dotnet flavor
(VB.net), which isn't the same as VB5 or 6 (hence the "Clasic"). The dotnet
flavor is for all intents and purposes a different language with different
syntax and such, and VB5/6 source code doesn't really work with VB.net.
This is why you may see some questions asked in this group, VB.net
questions, get replies to redirect them to an appropriate dotnet group.

In regards to learning VB5/6, it helps to remember that VB5/6 is "event
driven" as opposed to procedural, meaning much of your code is in
association with specific events. Winders under the hood is basically just
a bunch of "objects"... each window/form of an application is an object (a
container object), each "control" (such as buttons, text edit controls, list
control, etc.) is an object, etc. Most of these objects typically have
supporting "events"... a mouseclick on a button will trigger related events
of that button, etc. and the VB IDE makes it easy to handle (code for) these
events by providing you with subs for the events. At first it may be a
little difficult to shake the procedural mindset, but it doesn't take long
to grasp the event driven concept... once you do, it can be like a lightbulb
moment where Winders programming starts making sense ;-)




"Dusty" <notagain@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:jlujb3pfdn75335oi8ose93d0kn8nlh8kh@xxxxxxxxxx

Hi!

I bought an old computer a few years ago and found that it had Visual
Studio 97 and a vb5 night course installed on it so I thought I'd try
to learn it. I use to program in basic when I had my TRS80 and CoCo.

What I was wondering is would I be able to get support from this
group? I notice everybody seems to be posting about vb6. Would knowing
vb5 be useful for picking up vb6? Will vb5 data manipulation programs
run on 98SE and XP? I'm not interested in multimedia aps.

I'm just an old retired guy looking for things to do besides my
photography. If I could learn vb5 I'd sign up for a course in vb6. Is
vb6 the latest version?

Thanks

Dave


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