From: Ellen K. 

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
>>>news:hn3i81h4om7tr8ut73datmb4babuodlui3{at}4ax.com...
>>>> 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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