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Topic: Visual Basic .NET
Posted By: KCWebMonkey
Subject: Visual Basic .NET
Date Posted: 10 September 2003 at 3:57pm

I'm currently taking a class on Visual Basic .NET, primarily to get more familiar with the VB coding, but mainly i will only use it for VBScript.

Can anyone tell me what in VB.NET that i won't be using in VBScript, or what I should pay special attention to that i will be using?




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Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 10 September 2003 at 5:31pm
Basically everything. Because VB.Net and VBScript are two completely different languages (well similarities) asp.net pages ie are not based on asp vbscript anymore, the use well vb.net or c# or...
Though once you get the jist of vb.net you will hardly use any classic asp anymore.

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Posted By: KCWebMonkey
Date Posted: 10 September 2003 at 9:42pm

Completely different languages?

It looks like to me that they share lots of syntax similiarities...



Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 11 September 2003 at 9:10am
Similarities yes and if you know vb.net you will have an easier time with vbs but nevertheless vb.net has a lot of differences to vbs as well as to vb

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Posted By: KCWebMonkey
Date Posted: 11 September 2003 at 10:40am

but asp.net uses vb.net, not vbscript...right?



Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 11 September 2003 at 1:15pm
right, though you can still use some vbs in your code but for the most part there is no reason for it.

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Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 11 September 2003 at 4:39pm

vbscript is a subset of the vb programmng language.

vb.net is an expanded version of the vb programming language.

Classic asp exposes about a half dozen classes (e.g. session.xxx, response.xxx, request.xxx, etc) to the developer through vbscript or javascript.

Asp.net exposes the 3400+ classes of the .Net framework to the developer who can use any of a dozen different languages. VB.Net (the language), and C# tend to be the most commonly used ones.

Borland has a free c#builder that integrates with Visual Studio. Although you can use WebMatrix available at http://www.asp.net - www.asp.net to develop asp.net apps in Vb.net or C#, Visual Studio (either the full Vs, or the VB.net or C#.nt versions) has Intellisense which is worth it's weight in gold when you're dealing with 3400 classes.

The way intellisense works, is if you type system. it will provide a drop down list of what could come next.

 

BTW... the Borland C#builder doesn't need visual studion, it can run stand-alone.



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Posted By: KCWebMonkey
Date Posted: 11 September 2003 at 11:34pm
Yeah, i'm already starting to like the intellisense. I'm using Studio.Net and loving it so far...


Posted By: the boss
Date Posted: 12 September 2003 at 9:53am
vb.net coding is very siliar to java where as VB6 and VB Script r very very different tho come syntaxes may spell the same but the coding format, style, logics and layout is completely different..

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