[baseball_fan]

"The petition asks that Microsoft further develop Visual Basic 6 and Visual Basic for Applications, continue supporting the language, and allow customers to decide when to migrate code to Visual Basic .Net."

There are a significant number of programmers who are at a certain stage in life where they will not be able to make the next "transition." Imagine hearing, "We're sorry, but we will no longer be supporting algebra and English." Not everyone can be a Bill Gates and leap tall buildings in a single bound.

[Bush2000]

Most of you on this thread don't understand what's going on here. The termination of support applies solely to the VB6 IDE -- the GUI development environment (editor, compiler, etc) -- not the VB6 runtime! Mainstream Support for the VB6 Runtime will continue for 2 years *after* Longhorn ships -- and Extended Support will continue for 7 years after Longhorn ships.

Few developers have issues with the VB6 IDE. It's baked. More likely, people have issues with the way that the VB6 runtime operates -- and, as I pointed out above -- Microsoft is going to support that for a long time.

[Psycho_Bunny]

I evaluated .NET when it first came out and determined that the cost-to-benefit ratio was way too high for our company.

We still use VB6 because it doesn't require a bunch of ridiculous, cascading upgrades to our software infrastructure.

There are a lot of companies out there that could, of course, benefit from the upgrade but, by and large, I think they're the minority.

Personally,  I think the .NET "upgrade" is a scam similar to the DAO/ADO scam MS pulled a few years ago.

Besides, the .NET platform is kudge.  Who want to slow their networks down with it?

 

 

[longtermmemmory]

so for us non programmers is there something out there that is the equivalent of the old basic? Something that is easy to pick up?