XYplorer - Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) - VB6
This makes me wonder if API2 was Xojo’s VB.Net moment? Also highlights that you can just stick with an old version that works… before they ruined it.
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VB6 was one of my first favs.
Got into VB with VBA: we played jokes on people in MS Word.
I don’t hate VB. Net, but I think C# is so much better to write, and the jump from VB. Net to C# is so small I never got hooked on VB. net like i did VB6 (On a technical level I don’t think there’s any difference in VB. Net and C# aside from syntax, I just like writing c# more).
The jump from VB6 to .Net was really shitty tho. At the time Windows didn’t come with the libraries, and the updates were usually huge: a tool to remove a worm from my college’s IT department was hundreds of megabytes including dependencies, where I achieved the same with a batch file of a few K. Now that it’s a part of Windows it’s easier tho.
Got into Xojo from RealBasic, a demo that I kept resetting in high school so I could work with it. It felt like a better product back then.
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