Developing Professional Appications in VB
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I've read in several places that there are 5 times as many VB programmers as VC++ programmers. Can anyone provide some insight about what percentage of those VB programmers develop professional applications using VB? It "appears" to me that most professional applications are written in VC++. Am I wrong here? I'm not biased, just curious what all those VB programmers are working on. In-house projects?
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I've read in several places that there are 5 times as many VB programmers as VC++ programmers. Can anyone provide some insight about what percentage of those VB programmers develop professional applications using VB? It "appears" to me that most professional applications are written in VC++. Am I wrong here? I'm not biased, just curious what all those VB programmers are working on. In-house projects?
Well, Mark... Since the 2 guys you share the office with both use VB daily, you should know! VB is used to put Windows interfaces on old FORTRAN bridge rating apps, and to generate input files for traffic engineering apps -- duh! :-) Seriously, I'd like to hear some responses, too. My guess is the vast majority of in-house projects connecting to the company database (usually Access) are done in VB. I'm not saying that I think it's limited there by any means. VB6 makes all layers of enterprise apps much easier, especially database access. On the other hand, I seriously doubt the major commercial apps (MSOffice, AutoCAD, etc., etc.) are done in VB. I think it's just too much work to design the kind of data structure a program like AutoCAD needs w/o inheritance. Hopefully VB7 will change things. Of course we all know how much my opinion is worth. But, hey, you got what you paid for it! :-)
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Well, Mark... Since the 2 guys you share the office with both use VB daily, you should know! VB is used to put Windows interfaces on old FORTRAN bridge rating apps, and to generate input files for traffic engineering apps -- duh! :-) Seriously, I'd like to hear some responses, too. My guess is the vast majority of in-house projects connecting to the company database (usually Access) are done in VB. I'm not saying that I think it's limited there by any means. VB6 makes all layers of enterprise apps much easier, especially database access. On the other hand, I seriously doubt the major commercial apps (MSOffice, AutoCAD, etc., etc.) are done in VB. I think it's just too much work to design the kind of data structure a program like AutoCAD needs w/o inheritance. Hopefully VB7 will change things. Of course we all know how much my opinion is worth. But, hey, you got what you paid for it! :-)
Speaking for myself, I released a shrinkwrapped package originally written in VB3 many years ago, and I'm in the middle of another package that will have a big chunk written in VB6. Sure, I'd like inheritance, but I usually find ways to exist without it. I really thing there are some problem spaces where VB holds its own quite well.
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Speaking for myself, I released a shrinkwrapped package originally written in VB3 many years ago, and I'm in the middle of another package that will have a big chunk written in VB6. Sure, I'd like inheritance, but I usually find ways to exist without it. I really thing there are some problem spaces where VB holds its own quite well.
Hello, Well I don't know about what VB programmers do mostly but as for VB being used in commercial applications I find the possibilllity quite likely. Check out Steve McMahon's vbAccelerator: http://www.vbaccelerator.com/ "This site is here to help you break through VB's limits and provide some solid source code to base modern applications around. Everything here is free and comes with full source code." I agree with "VB *retard*", MFC is better than VB. I've done a few projects with VB and I like its easy syntax, maby a bit too easy... The VB runtime library is a bit big also, it can get annoying. Vb's best use is for VBA and for Database apps. -- Marty I can't wait to see VB7