From: "Robert Comer" 

Yuck. I'd rather do it in .NET, and probably VB.NET, if all you have is windows.

- Bob Comer


"Ellen K."  wrote in message
news:be4t8154idueu669ntlef75utc8kucgjr0{at}4ax.com...
> Actually today I found out we are going to do everything in Java.  I
> can't believe they think we'll be in production in September.
>
> On Fri, 20 May 2005 07:29:35 -0400, "Robert Comer"
>  wrote in message :
>
>>>I think I don't want to learn VB.Net, if I'm gonna use .Net I'd rather
>>> learn C# so I keep my VB 6 chops.
>>
>>C# and vb.net aren't all that different, and I learned my VB6 chops the
>>hard
>>way -- by mod'ing programs already built.  I went back to square one for
>>vb.net and I wont look back.
>>
>>I have production VB6 apps in a three tier client server app, but I'm
>>going
>>to move the middle tier onto the backend machine (and AS/400) and make the
>>client side a lot lighter too, so any programming I do on it will be all
>>new.
>>
>>If I could have converted my VB6 code straight into vb.net, I wouldn't be
>>doing it this way. :(
>>
>>>TOH it looks like we're going to be
>>> using both Java and .Net, so I guess if I do C# I will probably get
>>> mixed up with Java.  
>>
>>I bet not, you'll be able to keep it straight.
>>
>>- Bob Comer
>>
>>
>>"Ellen K."  wrote in message
>>news:7i4r81td82lud4103dl23m4ocq0bsio7ts{at}4ax.com...
>>>I think I don't want to learn VB.Net, if I'm gonna use .Net I'd rather
>>> learn C# so I keep my VB 6 chops.  OTOH it looks like we're going to be
>>> using both Java and .Net, so I guess if I do C# I will probably get
>>> mixed up with Java.  
>>>
>>> On Mon, 16 May 2005 20:39:50 -0400, "Robert Comer"
>>>  wrote in message
:
>>>
>>>>I'm actually starting to program in it.  It's not so bad,
but they made
>>>>some
>>>>serious mistakes in the transition from visual basic to visual
>>>>basic.net.
>>>>
>>>>- Bob Comer
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>"Richard B."  wrote in message
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>>>>> On Mon, 16 May 2005 16:10:30 -0400, "Geo."
 wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>I think I was right to avoid .NET stuff and will
continue to do
>>>>>>so on all my other machines.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've had other software require it to be installed,
some engineering
>>>>> software (Haested) did.
>>>>>
>>>>> - Richard
>>>>
>>>
>>
>

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