is visual basic 6.0 still a marketable skill? or is it too outdated?
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I would say that it would be a marketable secondary skill.\n\nI work as a C programmer and spend about 70% of my time designing and writing C code. The other 30% I spend testing the code. In order to do this, I have to write a nice GUI to use my software. I personally use Borland C++ Builder, but VB would work just as well.\n\nSo short answer is yes, it would be very useful for making quick one-off programs where the goal is to create a quick but easy to use program.
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"the difference is obvious" as quoted from microsoft itself.\n\nVisual Basic .NET is in no way a sucessor of Visual Basic 6, its a completely new language that is named by Microsoft as Visual Basic, which is completely stupid as these makes confusion. (This is actually true, since VB.NET is not build on top of VB6, it's almost made from scratch)\n\nVB.NET is actually out of the road of Visual Basic, it doesn't have, in any way, Visual Basic essences. If you want to know, Visual Basic .NET is created by some stupid C (or C++, or C#)developers, not VB developers, stupidly interesting isn't it?\n\nAnd some people have also been saying that Visual Basic .NET is C# rebranded to get VB popularity over C\n\nVB.NET, IMO, should be put down, and VB7 (which is currently not available), should be put as the succesor of VB. VB7 would in my imagination, support .NET framework, but have the same concept to VB6
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The language itself is capable of more than Visual Basic 6 and the development environment is improved greatly.\n\nApplications developed with Visual Basic .NET (2005 Express) use the .NET framework, so there is still a run-time that needs to be installed on the client machines.  (Although updates for Windows XP and Windows Vista will have these.\n\nOut of the box, you can use Visual Basic .NET to create console applications, class libraries and Windows forms applications.  While there is not a project template for VB.NET Windows services, you can still create them.\n\nVB.NET can still use 3rd party dynamic link libraries (DLLs) and COM/ActiveX controls and components.  You do have to download a separate 'Express' product to use Visual Basic .NET for Web development.\n\nOf course, the best thing about Visual Basic 2005 Express is that you can download it for *free*.  I've included the link below.
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Visual Basic® 2005  \nLive Meeting 2005
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Sam's Teach Yourself series is always good. If you just need basics, the For Dummies series works well. Microsoft Press's "Step By Step" books are also outstanding if you just want to quickly learn how to write programs with the Microsoft IDE.\n\nHowever, since Visual Basic 6 is a legacy product, why don't you invest in a book about Visual Basic .NET 2005?
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Learn VB.Net. Its the best programming language today.
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Professional VB.NET, 2nd Edition \nBy.. Wrox Publishers\n\nBook Description\nWritten and tested for the final release of .NET v1.0, this book explains the underlying philosophy and design of the .NET Framework and Common Language Runtime, and details the differences between Visual Basic 6 and Visual Basic .NET.\n\nVB.NET is covered virtually from start to finish: beginning with an overview of the .NET Framework, and ending with best practices for deploying .NET applications. In between, everything from database access to integration with other technologies such as XML is covered. Each of these new features are investigated in detail. You will see that VB.NET has emerged as a powerful yet easy to use language that allows developers to target the Internet just as easily as the desktop.\n\nYou will learn how to:\n\n- Develop applications and components using Visual Studio .NET\n- Effectively apply inheritance and interfaces when designing objects and components\n- Organize your code using namespaces\n- Handle errors using the Try...Catch...Finally structure\n- Access data using ADO.NET and bind controls to the underlying data sources\n- Create Windows applications and custom Windows controls\n- Interoperate with COM and ActiveX components\n- Create transactional and queuing components\n- Use .NET Remoting to exchange serialized objects between clients and servers\n- Create Windows Services\n- Use Visual Basic .NET to access information on the Web\n- Create and consume Web Services\n- Secure your applications and code using the tools provided in the .NET Framework SDK\n- Arrange your applications and libraries in assemblies and deploy them using Visual Studio .NET\n\nFrom the Publisher\nThis book is primarily aimed at experienced Visual Basic developers who are looking for an introduction to Visual Basic .NET and the .NET Framework.
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you can find great visual basic resources at \nhttp://www.vbcode.com/\n\nand \nhttp://www.hotscripts.com/search/9892723.html
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You sure you want to teach qbasic and then vb.  This transition is difficult for many to make and almost impossible.  The only thing in common  is some of the commands.  I learned qbasic back in the early 80's and in the late 90's decided to change over to vb.  I needed help in moving into objec! oriented code.  I would recommend going directly into VB and not going to qbasic.
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If you r developing any system level things u should go for C.\n\nWhile VB is mainly use for GUI based software, mainly accounting software, it would be difficult to develop system level software in VB.
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yes its a good idea to learn vb.net ,and if u dont have any idea about vb6 even then u will learn it . the only thing matter here is how much u know about programming in general. if u dont know anything about programming even then u have to give some of your time to learn and practice it.Learning visual Basis 2005 step by step as mentioned by some of our fellow is a good book for a new learner.
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it's a "place" for programming different languages and it supports J#, c#, c++, VB, and ASP..version 1.1 is the older one which is the same as visual studio.Net and 2.0 is visual studio 2003. there is a beta version for visual studio 2007 available for testers only and it's amazing how many new features are added to it. anyone who never touched a keyboard could program now :s
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It must be more than enough, way  more than enough. I have Visual Basic .NET Express installed without problems on my 256MB RAM PC. And I run it together with Visual Basic 6 and browsing internet while answering your question, and my PC is still able to stand not exploding.
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No, Visual Basic is a completely seperate entity from Flash, they are not even really the same kind of program, although you can make something in VB that looks like it came from Flash, altho it would require a lot more work and use of things like the API and DirectX and the like for the graphical prowess.\nBut as for just making a Flash with VB? That's like making a fruit salad from a cow. Sorry.
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C# is still going to be around. F# is a functional language and will probably take over where vbscript left off when it comes to windows scripting. but C# is an Object Oriented language. Your comparing apples and oranges man.
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right. \n\nas i am doing a degree and have come across this question myself in my VB unit.\n\ni was told by my lecturer;\n\nif you are still using VB6 - i am afraid you are going to have to start moving to VB.net..\n\nVB.net can do some of what VB6 can, but there are some things it cannot do.\n\nVB6 is becoming less used and VB.net more common.\n\nNow would be the time to move to VB.net. You will find some things similar and being able to do some things like you will be used to, but many things will be new.\n\nsorry i cannot help anymore - i cannot find my lecture notes on this.
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I have found the following site to be the best with free/complete projects with source code for Visual Basic\n\nhttp://www.planet-source-code.com/