VB6 MSCOMM wroks on one PC and not another

[T.Jackson]

I purchased Visual Studio .NET when it was new, and my PC programmer refused to use it. When 2005 .NET finally came out (and with a free version available) I convinced him to give it a try, since they replaced many of the 6.0 features that were eliminated in the original .net release.

Not only has he embraced it, but he's said he'll never go back. For those not looking forward to a new learning curve, I suggest you give it a try. The benefits will outweigh the time taken to learn them.

Some people probably think I'm nuts for purchasing an obsolete product for $150 when I can buy .net 2005 for half that. Basically I have an application that I'm too far into to be able to switch over at this point, otherwise I would be going with .net

VB6 is an obsolete 10 year-old product Vs .net which is cutting edge technology. No disputing this much.

[skimask]

VB6 is an obsolete 10 year-old product Vs .net which is cutting edge technology. No disputing this much.

I don't see what's so obsolete about it.
V.B.6 Enterprise is all I've got (actually V.S. 6 Enterprise), except for PBP...
How can it be obsolete if it works so damn good? Kinda like my old Chevy Blazer...32+ years old, still starts every time. Do you have to play with it once in awhile? Yes. Do you have to play nice? Yes.
Would I quit using either of them tomorrow if I got a new one (either .NET or an '08 Blazer) ? Not a chance...
(besides, I can't stand the new improved way of doing things that .NET introduced...makes me cringe...)

[T.Jackson]

I don't see what's so obsolete about it.

Make sure you take a picture of your prospective customer’s face to capture the reaction you get when you tell them that, you plan on developing their project in a language which is over 10 years old, not object orientated, and may or may not function in future operating systems. That picture would be priceless, and your bank account will remain with a negative balance too.

[mister_e]

Priceless

[T.Jackson]

Priceless

That's called the "blue screen of death" for those of you who don't know. How far MS have come, I used to get that screen in 98 from doing some of the most simplest things like; killing files, registry manipulation, running multiple instances of QuarkXpress ... XP is certainly faultless in this regard. Anyway I've gotta get ready to run, big day on.

[mister_e]

Oh there's tons of idiot errors message since i own Windows (my first was 3.0), such as "this program has perform an illegal operation and will be shut down" etc etc.. huh.. who thought to code it

At boot... "No keyboard detected.. press F1 to resume" (OK That's Bios)

now with Vista (thanks i don't have it yet) some may have fun reading this
http://blog.gadgetlite.com/2007/12/1...celess-though/

and seems the Blue screen of death have been there for Vista as well


one of my favourite banned commercial...

[T.Jackson]

one of my favourite banned commercial...

That is bloody terrible! I hope Microsoft sued and got millions! Sun micro system's products are far from perfect either. I have just lost an incredible amount of respect for Sun. I now understand why MS will never ship their OS with Java run times.

[skimask]

Oh there's tons of idiot errors message since i own Windows (my first was 3.0), such as "this program has perform an illegal operation and will be shut down" etc etc.. huh.. who thought to code it

Do you still have a PC running anything earlier than XP?
One of the bugs that was with Windows from 95 thru ME, it finally got fixed was that stupid 'stuck menu' bug. You'd open up a folder, pull down a menu, without clicking anything, move the mouse off the open folder/menu, open up a 2nd folder, and the menu that you pulled down in the first folder would be stuck, even after you closed the original folder. And the only way to get rid of it short of a reboot, was to kill Explorer and reopen it thru Ctrl-Alt-Del.

[skimask]

Make sure you take a picture of your prospective customer’s face to capture the reaction you get when you tell them that

Heck, do you think most customers (or a receiver of said projects/equipment, whatever) care much these days? Instant gratification... Does it work? Ok, I'll take it... that sort of thing..
I know .NET is the latest/greatest/next best-est thing out there...or is it Linux? My jury is still out on that one. I got a 2nd box running Ubuntu, playing with it still. If it wasn't for the lack of app's in general, I might've switched over completely years ago.
Anywhos...I've got that .NET Express loaded and I play with it off and on. Sure, it's full of features....features that I basically don't need or use. And jeeze is it slow to operate. Takes forever to load, 1/2 again as much to close, and so on. Maybe it's just the .NET Express itself vs. the full blown .NET, I don't know. And as has already been said in loads of places, those syntax changes can sometimes really kill a guy. A person could literally spend days trying to figure out the new way of doing things because the conversion wizard doesn't get it!

[T.Jackson]

(besides, I can't stand the new improved way of doing things that .NET introduced...makes me cringe...)

Struggles to learn. I know the feeling.