[AccessD] Class Rebuttal was: Basic Unbound Form ...

Not to worry Vista Beta includes VB6 runtimes.

Charlotte Foust wrote:

>Gosh, Drew, I'm going to run right out and burn all my .Net books and
>quit my job. ;o> And I seem to recall that the VB6 runtime was more like
>13 megs if parts of it weren't already on the machine?
>
>
>Charlotte
>
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>
>On a lighter topic.... .Net.  You know, I've played around with it, and
>quite frankly, I don't like it.
>
>Not the language, I like inheritance, in fact, if they could have just
>given VB inheritance, it would blow .Net out of the water.  
>
>What really bugs me is the .Net framework required to implement a
>project.
>VB had it's runtimes....ok, so you couldn't create a drop in place .exe,
>like you can in C++ (or Power Basic), but you're talking about 1.5 megs
>worth of a runtime, not 40 megs.  That is just too much of a pain with
>what I do.  Doesn't make up for the extra capabilities of .Net.
>
>Just my humble opinion.
>
>Drew
>  
>

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