VB.Net, your experience

[Cakkie]

In my opinion, the longer I work with it, the more things I miss. There are a lot of improvements made compared to VB6, but it seems that for every enhancement we gain, we loose a nice feature.

Take the common controls for instance, the use of the treeview has changed dramatically, and it was much easier to use in VB6. Same goes for the ListView, Imagelist and ToolBar.

Of course, things like docking, anchoring and things like a splitter are things that really improve the product, and spreed up development bacause they free us from having to code stuff that actually isn't really part of the program.

Anyway, what do you think of this? What is your first opinion on our future? Please not that I'm talkig on development ease here, and not performance and program capabilities (like multithreading, inheritance, ...)

[Iouri]

I did not use a lot of controls yet. But in generel I like VB.NET. I think it has great potential vs VB6. The problem is that we are not so familiar with it, but I think it will come. I think that the database development is much better than in VB6. Printing is much more complicated but gives you more control.
The bottom line - I am for VB.NET!!!

[Cakkie]

Originally posted by Iouri
The problem is that we are not so familiar with it, but I think it will come.

Yup, yesterday I spent half an hour to find out how to draw a line on a form...


PS: nice avator

[Iouri]

That is why we use forums. Not to waste time for something simple like that. Unfortunately it becomes simple after you have figured uout how to do it. Before it is a huge problem.

PS. Thanx for my avatar appreciation