Vista - Are VB & VB.NET the same?

If not, then how can I covert them and is more like a different kind of VB like VBA?

"Advice Pro" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
news:ca10b92bae0ca2ab57de5dd62570058b@xxxxxx-gateway.com...The latest versions of Visual Basic are called Visual Basic, but are
actually VB.NET. The last "classic" version of VB was Version 6. The classic
VB6 is very similar to VBScript. VBA is a different thing, but I gather it
is also similar to VBScript.

VB.NET has a conversion utility, which can convert 90% of VB6 code (they
say), but in practice the remaining code can be a pain to convert. I've
heard many people say it is easier to start over in VB.NET. The basic VB.NET
language is similar, but different enough from classic VB to require a steep
learning curve.

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Richard Mueller
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I think VB and VBA are essentially the same underlying language (VBA is an
implementation of VB).
VBscript would be the odd one out.

VB(net) is VB in name only and some syntactical similarities: I recall in
the early dot net days many long-time classic VB developers liked to refer
to it as "VB.Not!"

Tim



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"Tim Williams" <timjwilliams@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:%23B3WQxW4JHA.2336@xxxxxx.... and interesting where this was posted yet he didn't even ask about
vbscript. Maybe he should have asked in a vb or vb.net newsgroup...

/Al

As others have said, VB and VB.Net are completely
different, in a number of ways. And neither is
VBScript. So it's a little bit like you're looking in a
dessert cookbook to find a recipe for turning beef
stew into salad.

VB is a COM-centric system that produces
native-code-compiled EXEs and COM DLLs. In general,
VB programmers use the VB language methods plus
COM objects and, optionally, the Win32 API. VB.Net
is part of a Java-style, JIT-compiled system. It's one
of several .Net languages, all of which mainly use
the extensive system of objects (called classes in .Net)
that are part of the .Net "Framework". Like Java, then,
it's mainly for writing intranet applets, using a thoroughly
object-oriented coding style that depends on a "virtual
machine" runtime.

VB is to VB.Net as C++ is to C#. Each pair shares a
common syntax -- a deliberate effort to ease the transition
from Windows programming to .Net programming. (Just
as Java and javascript were designed to look like C++,
while VBS was designed to look like VB.) But beyond the
syntax similarity, VB and VB.Net have almost nothing in
common.

(It gets confusing because Microsoft originally made a
distinction between VB and VB.Net, but over time they've
decided to stop supporting VB and have dropped the ".Net"
from "VB.Net". The MS marketing folks have even gone so
far as to pretend that VB.Net is an upgrade to VB, retroactively
renumbering VB.Net 1, 2 and 3 as "VB7", "VB8" and "VB9".)

If you have a VBScript question it would
help if you clarify it. If you have a VB question try:

microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion

If you have a .Net question, or if you want to
convert VB to VB.Net, try this .Net group:

microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.vb