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7/23/2012 5:32:00 PM
"Mike Williams" <Mike@WhiskyAndCoke.com> wrote in message
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> "MM" <kylix_is@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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>> On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 10:47:36 -0400, "Jeff Johnson" <i.get@enough.spam>
>>>Wow. You tried working with a new application that is completely
>>>different
>>>from what you've been working with for years and you found that you
>>>couldn't
>>>just jump right in and be productive in one day.
>>
>> That's right! I fathomed the depths of classic VB in no time. VB.Net
>> is by contrast a pig's ear of an application. Plus, it's friggin'
>> ginormous. It's like Starship Enterprise when all you need is a
>> Cessna.
>
> I must admit that I dipped my toes into VB.Net a little myself for a very
> short while. I wrote a very small and simple "Hello World" app which ran
> okay on my machine. I then "built" the application so that the exe and a
> couple of supporting files ended up in a Bin/Release folder and I copied
> that folder over onto my wife's Windows 7 machine which she has had for a
> year or so and which has always been kept bang up to date using Windows
> Update. I tried to run my little VB.Net "Hello World" app on that Windows
> 7 machine and the bloody thing would not run! In order to get it going I
> was forced to download a huge multimegabyte load of Net rubbish, which
> took ages and ages and which required at least one restart. In contrast, a
> simple VB6 "Hello World" app ran fine on that same Windows 7 machine,
> first time without needing to downloas anything at all. That over bloated
> VB.Net garbage is a load of rubbish! A complete waste of disk space.
Channeling the Devil, no, scratch that, I mean Tom Shelton while filtering
out the nasty words: "Go to Project-->Properties-->Compile-->Advanced
Compile Options, and under 'Target Frameworks(all configurations)', select
'.NET Framework 2.0' or the oldest version that you see. The default is to
target the highest version, which the end user may not have."