Professor seeks advice on VB 5.0 vs. 6.0
One other area you might need to be careful of is having a student
turn in a project with VB6 controls on it. Will have a mix of projects
written in VB5 and VB6 on a PC with VB5 cause problems? I have not
tried it but would welcome any experience. I have one system with VB6
(beta) and one with VB5. I have been careful not to mix software or
installs because I did not want to have .DLL files or .OCX files get
out of sync.
Anyone else have inputs or experiences on mixed environments?
John G.
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|>Hello...
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|>I'm teaching an Intro to VB class this fall using VB 5.0. The
inevitable
|>question students will ask the first day: "Can I buy 6.0 and use it
for this
|>class".
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|>I haven't seen 6.0 yet, so I'm not sure how to answer that. Can
anyone advise
|>me on whether the look and feel of the interface is similar enough
to 5.0 so
|>that students will not get confused? The topics we cover in class
are fairly
|>elementary, so I'm not worried about language component compability.
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| VB6 looks the same as VB5.
| VB6 has ADO as default databaselayer, VB5 goes for DAO.
| VB6 has more default controls, VB5 doesnt
| VB6 supports Userdefined types as returntype of public functions,
VB5 doesn't
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| you can advise to use VB6, it's a successor to VB5, the interface
looks the same,
| users with urge to read manuals will probably ask you questions
about stuff concerning
| user defined types, but that's mostly it.
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| VB6 has also way more options to create activeX controls for
sites, and activeX objects
| for transaction server. If you stick with the material for VB5,
everyone can deal with that
| in VB6.
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| good luck,
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| Frans Bouma
| MS Betatester
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