VB6 apps [modified]

RoswellNX

ChandraRam wrote:

how those poor unfortunate souls, who are currently using VB6 apps, will maintain their code... Pay $$ to convert en-masse to some .NET?

I'd say it depends on if the person maintaining that code can stand VB or not;) Roswell:laugh:

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Nirosh

ALL EVIDENCE POINTS TO THE FACT, THAT TIME AND THE WORLD AS WE HAVE KNOWN IT, IS ABOUT TO COME TO AN END!!! http://www.bibleplus.org/12signs.htm[^]

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ChandraRam

Nice article, but I dont understand the link to my question? :confused:

Nirosh

Those VB6 guys do not have to worry about maintaining their codes since the world will end soon ..:)

L.W.C. Nirosh. Colombo, Sri Lanka.

ChandraRam

Oh, you'd rather the world ended than maintain VB6 ---- evil :laugh:

Nirosh

:-D:):-D

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hairy_hats

Nirosh wrote:

http://www.bibleplus.org/12signs.htm

:omg: "Daniel 12:4 - Knowledge shall increase and men shall run to and fro." As if men haven't been running around for the last 4000 years. Much better that knowledge didn't increase and we still went around in skins, afraid of the lightning. It's very sad that people still think this tripe is meaningful in the 21st Century.

GaryWoodfine

There is still alot to be said for VB6 apps!! I wrote a vb6 app about must be aprox 8 years ago!, and it is still running!! It survived the Transfer from NT4, To Win2k, to XP no problem!! the company I wrote it for, all the users don't want to stop using it as it is the most reliable application they have, and there is very little maintenance to be done to it. I have bever really understood why everybody moans about it, yes there are limitations to VB6/5, and yes there is a certain amount of Kudos to say you're a C++ developer, but in reality if you understood the limitations of VB6/5 and worked within them, it was a good answer to RAD at that time.

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GaryWoodfine

Well the Mayans accounted this time as quickening and the Mayan calendar stops in the year 2027. So who's right?

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ChandraRam

cykophysh39 wrote:

I wrote a vb6 app about must be aprox 8 years ago!, and it is still running!!

Thats really good... congrats :) What I was interested in was, what would (or should) the user of the app do to implement new requirements or fix things in the app, if all programmers were to migrate to a different language / platform, stating VB6 to be uncool?

GaryWoodfine

Well it depends on the application and the architecture behind it. This is not a new phenomena, this question has been asked throughout the history computing. As platforms change and requirements change how do we maintain applications. If you ever find the answer to this, you'll probably elevate yourself to messiah status :-)

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NormDroid

cykophysh39 wrote:

VB6 apps

Yeah, where to you want me to begin; sh*t, cr*p, sl*w, ugly...

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R Giskard Reventlov

What a boorish attitude. VB6 did a job: that's all. Just like VC or C# or COBOL. You may not like it (for some irrational reason) and it may have been a hammer compared to a precision lathe but it did do a decent job. I've used it and I've used pretty much everything else as well (even Java!). I really don't care: it's whatever the employer wants and is willing to pay for. If I don't think I'll enjoy using the technology I decline the role. Simple. There is no perfect technology: they all have good points and bad so stop knocking what is, in reality, just a tool. Oh go on, have a nice day.

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GaryWoodfine

Compared to what at the time?

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NormDroid

Visual C++ of course ;P

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NormDroid

digital man wrote:

VB6 did a job

Cludge a job, Oh believe me it lets the less talented of users develop throw together bad applications, it sometimes was used for the jobs and I've seen some pretty bad UI's in my time and 99% of them came from VB.

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Kevin McFarlane

cykophysh39 wrote:

I have bever really understood why everybody moans about it

Because lots of C/C++ developers are language bigots.

GaryWoodfine

Yeah, but when compared to the ease of developing quick business applications VB6 was King.

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GaryWoodfine

Yeah, I know. I don't see what the big hangup is about Programming languages!! So you know how to code in a Language!! Well to be a "real" programmer you need to know a whole heap of languages. I think the language bigots just need to grow up, and get over it :-)

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NormDroid

cykophysh39 wrote:

VB6 was King

I would hardly say 'King', but each to their own, I suppose.;)

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