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As March unfolds there is a lot of heat and some light around the Death of VB that VB.Net represents. After March 31, 2005 regular support for VB6 is ended, with no upgrade available of course. The Office VBA community has its underwear in much the same twist, because they are quite aware of the close connection between VBA and VB6.
Anyone else following this?
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Karl E. Peterson's Classic VB Code
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KEP is awesome. I used to read his stuff all the time. But now I don't use VB anymore - FreeBASIC is so much better. Soon, we'll have wx and we won't need VB for GUI stuff either. Leave VB to rot in its grave.
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i think EXEs are going to die all together. With the release of LH, EXE support will be limited. It will be pulled out completely with the next version of windows. So not just VB but all languages without .NET compilers will die or will work only in emulators :roll:
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And with the new OS comes the new bloat...the runtimes for .net are already large enough...sheesh! Needless to say...I signed the petition.
I'd knock on wood, but my desk is particle board.
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There arent many signers on that site. Only some 1600 odd signatures. Why the lack of signs? :???:
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thebiqbasicq there no way microsoft would kill Native excutablies that would a) be very very bad bussness (think about all the probgrams that bussness use that would be usless if that happened
B) bytecode is slow as hell compared to native excutablies and i'm shure you will never find a game dev company that would be willing to embrace microsoft .NET .
