From: John Beckett 

"Steve Ewing"  wrote in message
news::
> Is VB.net that much different from VB6?  That it would affect a casual
> programmer (such as me)?

Yes.

I've done quite a lot of VB6 coding and have installed VS.net and played
with it a bit, including VB.net.

There are countless complexities to VB.net - great stuff, but if someone
wanted to write a simple "run on my computer" app, I would
recommend VB6. The jargon associated with VB.net is pretty overwhelming,
and the .net framework is a bit of a killer when you want to run an app on
another computer without a BIG setup program. VB.net is really C with
"if ... then ... end if" instead of "if (...) {...}".

BTW the .net framework stuff is a great concept and will probably be
everywhere, one day.

John

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