VB5 or VB^

[jerjim]

I develop straightforward database applications using VB5 as a front end and an Access MDB 97 as my database engine. I use Crystal reports for generating output. All the apps I have developed run on peer-to-peer networks not client-server.

Given the above simplicity or primitiveness of my clients' needs, is there any compelling reason for me to port my Vb5 apps to Vb6.

I understand Vb6's OOP capabilities are just the same as Vb5. If Vb6 had the inheritance capabilities of Java then I would gladly embrace Vb6.

 

[StormbringerV]

From your description I would say there is not much reason to up to VB6. It does NOT support inheritance in any shape (one of my main gripes, though VB7/Net, whatever they're calling it now, is supposed to support it. It's due out next month...). VB6's big revision has more to do with ADO and web support than with any enhancements to the language itself.

Dave

 

[jerjim]

To Stormbringer:

By your name i can deduce to you're a mech warrior fan.
Anyway, thanx for your reply to which I agree totally.
I have been seriously studying java with the intention of developing in that language. I hope Forte is as good an IDE as VB's. But I will also get a copy of VB7/NET. I understand Microsoft programmed it from the ground up and they intend to make it truly OOP.

 

[StormbringerV]

Hey JerJim!

I DO like MechWarrior, but actually the name is from an old Deep Purple album! lol

I think Java is an excellent language to study up on. As is C++ and Delphi. Don't misunderstand, I do like VB, but I have a vague distrust of any language that is as platform dependent as VB has been. But again, VB.Net may break that mold! Take it easy dude...
Dave

 

[jerjim]

AAAAhhhhh a fellow MechWarrior dude. Could you also be into Civ2, Age of Empires, Railroad Tycoon and other games on which I have WASTED a lot of time and SQUANDERED a lot of opportunities. And there are other games which i bought, put on the shelf and never opened (Red Baron II, 688, Lords of The Realm, Rainbow Six, AAARRRRRGGGGHHHH. What a waste.

If I had concentrated on my programming projects instead of those games I'd probably be driving a new car by now.

Anyway, I am looking forward to VB.NET if only to preserve the years I've invested in studying VB and developing programs in it. I am awed by the elegance of the Java language and its inheritance capabilities. Java was based on C++ except that they took out what they claim to be the bad features of C++.

So my plans are simply to concentrate on Java and VB.

Now you take care too, keep in touch and thanks for the replies.