Is possible work with VB 6.0 ?
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| Hi: I work with Visual Basic 6.0, is possible work with Blitz 3D SDK with VB 6 ? Many thanks. |
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| It should be possible, but you would need to create the function definition file. There is one for C# that could be used as a template on what needs done. |
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| Visual Studio 2005 is free, just download it. http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express |
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| VB6 is different VB.net IMHO, the possible way I can think of is translate PureBasic include and use it. |
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| I'd say make the move to .Net. Preferably C#, but VB.Net is a good starter platform. |
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| The language is largely irrelevant, its the .NET Framework that takes the effort to learn. Language feature-wise the gap (small though it is) is closing with each version of Visual Studio that MS release. |
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| Maybe "feature-wise" the languages are very similar, but, the resulting IL code generated by C# is much more optimized than that of VB.Net. But, really it is just a matter of preference. I started out doing VB 5, moved to 6. When .Net came out I figured since I had to learn a whole new framework I'd take the time to learn C#. I haven't looked back since. |
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| ..but, the resulting IL code generated by C# is much more optimized than that of VB.Net... emphasis mine'much more' is a bit strong, MS themselves say... 'There are almost no performance issues between Visual Basic .NET and Visual C# .NET' in "Differences Between Visual Basic .NET and Visual C# .NET" link-> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308470 I'm not saying there are no differences - because there are, but they are not as big as you might have inferred. If you want a comparison of the two: 1) the MS article above 2) Syntax/feature comparison- http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/vbnet_c__difference.asp 3) MSIL comparison (geek-alert) http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/vbvscsmsil.asp btw, I'm not a VB.NET fanboy, I earn a living coding both VB.NET and C# - I personally actually prefer C#, but I just want to make sure people have the facts. |
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| the only performance issue is regarding late binding, wich can be a little slow on visual basic .net and it is inexistant on C#. Disabling the late-binding mechanism in the preferences dialog of Visual Basic.net solves this issue. the data structure is the same in C# and Visual Basic .net so things are well organized in both languages. In fact is someone tries to decompile a not obfuscated vb.net program, the result is C# code. |
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| That's all good to know. The articles are interesting. But I still like C# better :P -j9t |
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| > But I still like C# better :P There are cures for that. :) |
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