Friday, November 11, 2005
Notepad.NET
Visual Studio.NET 2005 has just been released recently and i downloaded the program yesterday, intending to give vb.net a second chance. I'm quite fond of using Vb6 programming language, released years back in 1998. However, the interfaces look dated now and it is buggy and inflexible. Besides, MS is going to end support for it.
2 years ago whenn Visual Studio.NET 2003 came out, i tested it and found in crappish. Its ultra lag on my computer, and all the familiar stuffs and tricks that i used in VB6 are missing. I promptly uninstalled it.
This time, version 2005 saw a come back of some of the features missing in 2003.
I took my time to test it out, and quite like the new interface elements it provides.
Many important things that were hard to do in vb6 is now so simplified its only a matter of setting a few properties. On the other hand, many features that make vb6 simple and easy to use are gone, replaced with more unnessarily OOP counterparts which are much harder to use.
Neverthless, i experimented and wrote a notepad clone in this new language. Most likely its one of the first complete application to be written using VS.net 2005 and .NET Framework 2.0
Here is a screenshot.
2 years ago whenn Visual Studio.NET 2003 came out, i tested it and found in crappish. Its ultra lag on my computer, and all the familiar stuffs and tricks that i used in VB6 are missing. I promptly uninstalled it.
This time, version 2005 saw a come back of some of the features missing in 2003.
I took my time to test it out, and quite like the new interface elements it provides.
Many important things that were hard to do in vb6 is now so simplified its only a matter of setting a few properties. On the other hand, many features that make vb6 simple and easy to use are gone, replaced with more unnessarily OOP counterparts which are much harder to use.
Neverthless, i experimented and wrote a notepad clone in this new language. Most likely its one of the first complete application to be written using VS.net 2005 and .NET Framework 2.0
Here is a screenshot.
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