Comment by mysterydip
2 years ago
I was so productive in VB5/6 back in the late 90s/early 00s. I made tons of utility apps to solve all kinds of little problems. It was just so easy to put things together. I tried to make the transition to vb.net but it was not the same thing.
The VB6 Winforms builder here is almost 100% identical to the Winforms builder in the latest release of Visual Studio 2022 that came out today.
I use it for hours every day to just drag and drop a few components onto a form and add some logic and have a little desktop app up and running in a few minutes.
I (sadly) code in C# since 2021, because the support is better, but I honestly believe VB.NET was superior because of the increased readability of the code.
sounds cool.
can you give a few examples of such apps that you created?
i have used VB in the past too, v4 and 5, and even a free v2 copy that I got from the net long back. but mainly did business apps with them.
see the History section here:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Basic_(classic)
I know the feeling, I was the go to VB6 guy in college for writing test automation on equipment over GPIB, UART, RS422, etc. I made bank as a grad student from the EE department, I quit my TA position and they replaced me as instrumentation guy :) . Paid for my masters for the most part.
It was rad!