.net - Pros And Cons Of VB And VBA?
Aug 28, 2009
On another programming related website, I saw this line in someone's signature. This is NOT the first time I've seen such sentiments, although this is the harshest:"People who work in VB or any variant thereof are not programmers, they are circus chimps throwing feces into an IDE..."VBA is my bread and butter and I can automate quite a bit of stuff with it. Yes, I know it lacks polish and some functionality, but why so much negativity toward it? On the flip side, what do other languages have that VB doesn't?
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Feb 13, 2007
i am a seasoned vb6 and vb.net developer and where i currently work, they use VB6. Now, we develop a range of office plugins for a client, and they currently use vb6, they also do some other projects with vb6. I want them to change to vb.net They have asked me for a list of Pros for switching, and also some Cons.
The pros i have are: .Net is future proofed, VB6 will not be supported by Microsoft for much longer One standard platform to run on (.Net) removing problems of windows versions and missing dlls full OOP support and a generic Api for office application development. Integrate seamlessly with Java using bridging components (they are primarily a java house)Quicker performance On event application loading (in office) to help application performance. Application controls are loaded but the code to execute is only loaded when required, reducing application load on start up.Backwards compatible to Office and Outlook 2003
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Nov 18, 2010
I have been reading up on Abstract classes and am thinking about utilizing them in an upcoming project.
I would like to know the pros and cons of using abstract classes from someone who has actually used them.
Additionally, I would like to know if the abstract class needs to be in it's own project or if they should be defined in an existing project and used within the application.
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Dec 4, 2009
I would like to know the pros and cons of calling procedures with Call Keyword and without Call in VB.NET?
Private Sub ProOne()
// Code Are Here
End Sub[code].....
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Jun 22, 2011
What are the pros and cons of standardizing on using Option Compare Text vs Option Compare Binary for VB.NET development?
- EDIT -Just some background since it seems like it would help - my development team has found it much easier to standardize on Option Strict On, Option Infer On, and Option Explicit due to their obvious advantages over the alternatives. What we haven't found as easy to standardize on is Option Compare Text/Binary as there seem to be advantages and disadvantages to both and different developers have differing opinions. Some of the arguments for each side have been as follows:
Some of the advantages/arguments for Option Compare Text:
It reduces verbosity in the code by removing the need for StringComparers and .ToLower() calls and StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase all over the place Data needs are rarely concerned with casing, as evidenced by most databases being case-insensitive. Rarely would you ever really want to distinguish between THIS and This and this when doing a data comparison.
Certain specific use cases are simpler when you don't have to worry about casing. For example, handling ASP.NET control events where commands are sent to the codebehind as strings and casing-issues are difficult to track down as the compiler cannot help you. Think Select Case statements for <asp:repeater> events as an example.Many of the concerns raised about text comparison concern internationalization, which is often not that relevant to a lot of applications.VB specifically is case insensitive as a language, though Visual Studio helps you by at least enforcing consistency in your casing. SQL is case insensitive as well. Strings are the only place where you have to remember to worry about it, which highlights the awkwardness in ways you wouldn't normally notice it if you were worried about it everywhere.
Some of the advantages/arguments for Option Compare Binary:C# works this way, as do most other languages. It's somewhat unexpected to have alternate behavior and the unexpected is not good in programming.There is a slight performance penalty with Option Compare Text as evidenced by the IL generated on compile. Option Compare Binary doesn't have that penalty.Option Compare Text only makes certain parts of string handling case insensitive. But, it doesn't make it so that things like dictionary indexing are case insensitive by default. So, it's not like Option Compare Text actually makes it so that you don't have to worry about casing at all. If it only works half way, why bother?Programming is hard. It's best not to attempt to smooth over that fact. Worrying about string casing is part of the deal. Humans recognize THIS is different from This and tHiS. Of course your code should too - after all, they aren't really the exact same string.
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Dec 30, 2010
Here is the use case: I am making an app that will email HTML Newsletters. The app will also email a plain text version of the newsletter as an alternate view. The way I see it there are two ways of going about this when using the system.net.mail namespace. What are the pro/cons of these two ways, or is there a another way that I am missing?
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Apr 6, 2012
I have a general question on app.config, or the best way to NOT hard code a SmtpServer.Host = XXXXXXXX setting. I wrote this very simple SMTP texting application and wanted to have the settings not hard code but a form that read or writes to app.config or .ini or registry. my question is the pros and cons? and if anyone hae suggested or a link to sample project that is doing what I'm after. I have a single .exe and am new to vb.net and either want the exe to check for app.config, ini or registry if does not exist to create and then save added config, if the exe runs again it uses the newly created settings.
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Apr 20, 2012
All it really does is make me have to dim each variable, making it compile badly if I forget to dim a variable.
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