Rev's Mac-Centricity (Was: Plea to sell Dan's book widely)

[Ken Ray]

On 8/7/04 10:57 PM, "Chipp Walters" <chipp at chipp.com> wrote:

> I take both InfoWorld and EWeek. Both have had multiple articles about
> the 'disenfranchisment' (is that a word?) of VB developers with .NET

This is more I think about VB developers not wanting to go to .NET because
it represents a major paradigm shift for them. (BTW: I'm one of them. ;-)

> And you know the last version of VB before .NET will soon no longer
> be supported.

Well, I know that Microsoft at some point will stop supporting VB 6 and only
support VB.NET.
 
> The latest I've heard from Chris, who stays on top of this stuff, is
> that to use the more advanced features in .NET, you'll have to use C#.

Well that's true. Although it seems that a number of people still think
VB.NET will be supported in Longhorn, although that will probably strand us
VB 6 developers if they don't allow for support of VB 6 apps in Longhorn.


Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com