I program VB for money from time to time. I think i'd have to reccomend against VB.NET. The big thing VB has going for it is its simplicity and just general ease of getting stuff to work. VB.NET dosen't have that. You'd probbably be better off going something like C# or C++ or even just C and not going down the microsoft path to heavily. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Kilpatrick" To: Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 3:22 PM Subject: [OT]: RE: Visual Basic?? > If you are interested in just playing around with using VB for serial > control of PICs and things, the learning version should be fine. > > If you are interested in learning VB for real application development, > you should consider going to VB.NET. It is a much more well-designed > language. (or better yet, learn C#, but that is another story) > > Alex > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: John Pearson [mailto:xero@CMC.NET] > > Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 11:54 PM > > To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU > > Subject: Visual Basic?? > > > > > > I am interested in getting VB. There seems to be a Learning > > and Pro version. What are the limitations of the Learning > > version. What should I know about the different versions of VB. > > > > Thanks > > > > John > > > > -- > > http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply > > us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body > > > > -- > http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! > email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body