On 04/03/2011 14:51, Michael Rigby-Jones wrote:
> IME C#/VB.Net development brings older PC's to their knees, the
> executables appears to run no faster than VB6, and slower in many cases
> and the .Net runtime is an absolute monster.  The debugging is hit and
> miss, trying to move the execution point back and forward frequently
> results in a crash.
At the start, it's building native versions from the .net byte code so=20
the visual studio 10  2008 is like treacle

once it's done that in the background it's a bit faster for IDE and=20
application than VB6 on a P4M 1.8GHz, 9 years old.

..Net 4.0 is still very bloated but seems a big improvement on 3.0 which=20
was big bad thing compared to 2.0

IMO though no point to to vb.net, it's not a newer version of VB6. it's=20
VB designed by a C programmer. The c# is better. It's just like VB6 in=20
many ways but with syntax closer to Java. It's not C or C++ for sure.

Teaching Granny to Suck Eggs bit:

The new features of visual design  and how=20
scaling/dock/anchor/margin/padding work are alternately fantastic and=20
horrifying till you figure them out.
Simply reading up on those and doing some micky mouse code to play with=20
GUI / Visual designer is valuable.

VB6 button up and Button down images:
a lot of complicated explanations on web how to (as buttons now only=20
have a background image).

Actually what is VERY simple, even if porting VB6 to c# is have an=20
ImageList.
A button can take an imagelist
make index 0 be button up and index 1 be button down. Text can overlay=20
on the imagelist image, so where in VB you might have had 20 custom=20
images you maybe have 2 or 3 (you can have a mouse over event) and text.

The important thing is not to do stuff the java/vb6/C++ etc way and go=20
off and write a new class to add the "missing" feature, but understand=20
how .net 4.0 Windows forms meant to work and how c# is meant to be used.



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