Is VB.Net better than Visual Basic 6.0?

Question

i've always used VB 6.0, but a friend is using VB.Net and says it is really good and i dont know weather to get it or not

Answer 1

VB.NET was much easier to learn and use than 6. MS made a lot of good improvements. There is only one thing that drives me back to using 6; the sendkeys commend.



For security reasons, MS gutted the functionality of it, and rightfully so...you can do a lot of damage if you are of malicious mind.



Still, I could get VB6 to do some cool antics...used it a lot to enter order information onto web pages.

Answer 2

Eventually, VB 6.0 won't be supported. It's your choice when you want to switch. There are some features of VB 6.0 that are not available in VB.NET, but you do get a bunch of nice new features. There is probably a Microsoft product page that can tell you all about moving from VB6 to VB.NET, and yes, you will need to rewrite some portions of your programs by hand.

Answer 3

Yes, VB.net is way better. I hated VB6, it is a toy language. VB.net gives you the ease of use of VB6, wrapped in a better object oriented programming model. You have the ability to do lots of customized things in VB.net that you couldn't do in VB6, like better multi-threaded programming and custom control painting. Plus you can easily share VB.net assemblies (dll's) with other .net languages such as C#. The .net framework library practically implements everything you could want out of the gate, so you can just code your application and run with it in most cases. Often times too, it's easy to go online and download custom controls or Dlls and integrate them into your project.

Answer 4

You could download VB .NET 2005 Express from Microsoft's site and use it, it's a free version.



IMHO VB .NET is better than 6. Easy support of multithreading is one big benefit.