NEED INFO ON VISUAL BASIC

[GaryWilsonCPA]

THE LAST TIME I USED VISUAL BASIC WAS WITH VERSION 6. I NO LONGER HAVE THAT AVAILABLE, AND NEED TO BUY THE LATEST VERSION. THE PROJECT I AM BUILDING IS A SIMPLE GRID TO ALLOW PEOPLE TO LOOK UP INFORMATION IN A DATABASE WE HAVE.

THE DATABASE IS SERVER SQL.

What version do i need to buy?

Thanks for your help and sorry for the earlier caps.

 

[foundryqa]

Version 6 is still used by some developers, while others have migrated to vb.net. vb.net uses a new form of ado called ado.net which is much different than dao or ado.

To directly answer your question of the most current version of vb, it is vb.net 2003.

I like to embrace new technologies and feel that .net is the future, but if you are used to vb6 and will not do much further programming, a case could be made to stay with vb6.

Fred

 

[VBDoc]

VB6 will do the job fine, stay away from things like Variant Arrays (not supported by .NET) and also don't use control arrays (text1(0), text1(1))... ahh and use fully qualified properties not the default propery clauses (in other words RS("myfield").Value instead of RS("myfield"))... .net also does not support default properties.

If you follow these guidelines (more on MS site but these are the most important) you should be able to upgrade without much effort using the wizard should the need arise.

.Net is fun but the learning curve might be too steep.

Regards,
M Keefer
mkeefer@wifreenet.com