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Microsoft is on a very high pressure from the VB community, consistently. Thus, they extended the support for Visual Basic 6 until 2024. Visual Basic 6.0 is the best language of 2014 ... see the comments and polls. It is said to be by far the best language from Microsoft and the language with the most source code from the Internet. Even I wrote an article on this topic.
Best of regards,
ISpliter
modified 24-Jan-15 17:31pm.
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ISplitter, your article was and still is excellent.
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thank you Dave  . The article presents only some truths that we all know, I just put them in text.
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Microsoft now have a policy for programming languages they no longer wish to support. They give them to the .Net Foundation 
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sten2005 wrote: There are still 14 billion lines of VB6 programming in use in businesses (Gartner research).
That still needs supporting and modifying. Fortunately Microsoft support VB6 until 'at least' 2024 and VB6 installs and runs on Windows 7, 8 and 10.
Do you have a link to those claims?
a) 14 Billion of lines of VB6 (Gartner Research)
b) Microsoft supports VB6 until 'at least' 2024?
We are planning our migration of our application off VB6 and it would be good to backup the migration strategy with some of these claims.
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Hi,
I no longer use vb6 fortunately but many ex collegues of mine still use it because the company invested a lot of money in those application and they are not ready to reinvest to be ported or rewritten(most likely)
Not sure if you are in employment or not but in the real world is a luxury to work on greenfield projects,most of the companies I have worked for have legacy application.
I still support .net 2.0 apps and work on .net 2013 all c# and 1 vb app
Welcome to the real world!!!
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Why "fortunately" ? Visual Basic 6.0 is the best language of 2014 ... see the comments and polls
Best of regards,
ISpliter
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Yes, but...look at what is in second and third places, and it's clear it's a joke. I mean...Python and Java?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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"I mean...Python and Java?"
Tiobe has Java in second place (forecast to rise to first place) and Python eighth. And LangPop also has Java second and Python fifth. And IEEE Spectrum have Java first and Python fifth.
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TIOBE has lost credibility when they downgraded Visual Basic 6.0 from place 3 on place 10 (just a few months ago). Thus, we can clearly see that TIOBE was forced to downgrade VB6 (presure from Microsoft) !
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knowing I'm not the only one still using VS6 for legacy projects.
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actually most programmers use VS6 to this day
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Apart from Visual Studio, the .NET compiler is available as open source with some cool new features which I've been looking at.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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I voted for VS 2013, and VS6. I would like to add: 90% VS6 (VB6) and 10% VS2013!
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The most plausible explantion for those results is that that survey was created by users on www.vb6-for-evaaar.net and its users then created a bunch of sock puppet accounts to stuff the ballot box enough that anyone else who saw it would just roll their eyes and not even bother to cast a legit vote to try and unfubar the results.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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2008 & 2010 are used for building Python extensions, while 2012 is used for MSVC 12 stuff and 2013 is my main version.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
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Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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... we are developing and maintaining software with Visual Studio .NET on one group of products, and 2008 on the rest.
Every time we've tried to convince the Pointy-Haired Bosses that we need to upgrade, they've insisted on a full bore regression test after the conversion. There aren't resources available for the testing, so no conversion.
Even though the tool chains haven't received support in years.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I use 2013 at my job - didn't really have a choice there, but I like it a lot.
At home I use the community edition, as I don't work on any bigger projects.
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2013 at my proper job
2015 for my start-up's stuff
and monaco[^] for small projects, when it's just some html, bootstrap and angular.
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Oh, wait, you mean VS doesn't stand for Very Sexy? 
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I use 2013 for Windows Apps, and 2012 for Web Apps
I really don't see much difference between the 2, but on 2013, I don't care for the licensing when using a MSDN Subscription. You have to fire it up every week or the license goes stale.
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For C/C++ code.
Most of the time our 3rd party library do not support most recent versions of Visual Studio, so there is no point in upgrading.
I'd rather be phishing!
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