So where do I place my chips? In my opinion VB.NET will greatly improve the way we develop desktop and web applications. If you are leading a team, you can use the .NET platform to figure out which members show the motivation to start learning it before its release. Then reward them by having them help educate the team when the time comes to use it. If you are a developer, I would take a little time each day to get acquainted with it. Read an article or code snippet each day. This will help defer the shell shock of having to learn the intricacies of VB.NET when crunch time comes. The changes will require time and effort, but there are plenty of resources already available to help us make VB.NET the powerhouse in our development toolbox not just a RAD tool.
Changes in VB.NET Visual Studio Next Generation: Language Enhancements The Future of Visual Basic New Object-Oriented Capabilities in VB.NET Introducing .NET What's new in VB.NET? About Visual Basic.NET
Upgrading to VB.NET Making the Transition to VB.NET from VB6
To read about some of the criticisms of VB.NET see the following: VB.NET: Is it too complex? Visual Fred Microsoft's new Visual Basic--a .Not? VB.NET Raises Hackles
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Are you seriously considering that Java, as one of the slowest running languages there I have used, is better than VB.NET? I would rather write an app in Assembly than Java (a little extreme but yo...
I say that the article is good, and truly .NET got almost all OO programmer needs. But there are things VB.NET has failed to do when it comes to OO, and I can say JAVA still has its strong points... ...
Good article. Very straight forward!
Sorry, I am not through heckling Java and C++. Its not the languages, per se. It is the attitude and the hype that follows them. The best programmers on the planet were C programmers, probably still a...