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Re: What is you opinon on VB 2010?

Anthony Papillion — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:41:22 GMT

I've been playing around with 2010 for a few weeks now and, so far, I like it. VS2010 is a solid piece of software and VB2010 is on par with just about any other language out there. I especially love the implicit line coninuation features which, in many or most cases, eliminate the need to use underscores. Can't wait for the RTM.

VB has come a LONG way since the old days. It's now on the level with languages like C#, Java, etc as a language and just about anything can be done with it.

Re: Re: What is you opinon on VB 2010

vesuvius — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:21:23 GMT

VB is a lovely language. To be honest, the hardest thing to learn is the .NET framework. Once you learn C# then VB is much easier or vica-versa. To be honest, a lot of developers are idiots.

It is all about knowing how to declare a "for loop", or create a "method" or add an "event handler", and C# isn't really much different to VB. In fact when it comes to reading code someone else has written VB is easier and less error prone.

Re: What is you opinon on VB 2010

Joe Chung — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:01:27 GMT

VB is a nice language. It's a bit wordy, but it has some nice features like XML literals, optional dynamic typing, optional strict typing, etc.

Re: Re: What is you opinon on VB 2010

Ion Todirel — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:45:17 GMT

I don't think VB.NET is any easier to learn than C#, some constructs are more verbose but that's about all, that doesn't make it easier to "master"... Anyhow for me, a C# guy, was very easy

Re: What is you opinon on VB 2010

Michael Vanderpool — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:49:56 GMT

Well, I am a C# programmer, but used VB in the past. Great language for beginners, and easy to understand. I messed with VB 2010 about week ago and my opinion stays the same. When I started programming with VB about 4 years or so ago, I did some basic things, like a calculator, and some other little things. Most of my VB projects were built to do my homework in school for me, lol. Most of which were math based apps.

So, find what you are interested in making, and then do basic things to work towards that. Learn collections, variables, statements, etc... My recommendation is to go up to the WindowsClient website and grab some videos there, they explain a lot, while showing you the steps involved.

Best of Luck,

Michael