Herfried
Thu Sep 25 16:09:57 CDT 2003
Hello,
"Deepak Kapoor" <letsdotnet@hotmail.com> schrieb:
> I was under the impression that Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll
> namespace is there only to help VB6 programers find things
> that they so much loved (such as VbCrlf, Input Box...),#
No, the Visual Basic .NET Runtime Libarary provides some _shortcuts_ for
classes/methods of the framework that make work easiert to the developer.
Nevertheless the 'InputBox' function is only available in this library and
not in the Framework Class Libarary.
> the idea still being to use the framework as much as possible.
Why not use language-specific "shortcuts"?
> I also think that this namespace discourages one to explore
> many rich features provided by the framework, thus its use should
> be discouraged.
I don't think so. Many things in the 'Microsoft.VisualBasic' namespace are
not directly availabe in the framework.
> Personally I don't do much VB.NET, but whenever I have to,
> I make sure that I do not include this namespace.
ROFL
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Herfried K. Wagner
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