

Why I need to jump to VB.NET if I can do the same with VB, with less effort, and no need to relearn the tricks again? The IDE, the whole community, thousands of OCXs available for just about anything you need, the machine requirements (really low), the working speed, the flexibility for any project type (scripting, user interface, batch, communications, database). Ok, but why didn’t you jump to VB.NET? Well, although I worked with ASP.NET many years ago (I think in 2003–2004), VB was always a winner for me. Because I don’t need anything to get it to work on any Windows system (VB runtime still comes in Windows 7-8-10, so any standard VB program will run without any installation, just the EXE).Because it is RAD (Rapid Application Development).Because it is the easiest language I have ever worked with.Because it still works perfectly today.Because I used it for 20 years and I love it.Why the hell are you still using VB for new projects? And I still do new little projects with VB. … and we are in 2021 and I still love VB. In 2014, some software developers still preferred Visual Basic 6.0 over its successor, Visual Basic.On April 8, 2008, Microsoft stopped supporting Visual Basic 6.0 IDE.In 2002, Microsoft announce that Visual Basic would be replaced by the new Visual Basic.NET.The final release was version 6 in 1998.
