Got a few general questions about VB Express. When MS first announced they were releasing Visual Studio Express version free until a given date, I was one of the first to download it. Later they announced it would remain free, and oddly enough, my interest dwindled. There was no hurry, and I dropped looking at it.
I have a few apps at work that are written in VB6 and are becoming decidedly antiquated. But my division has no plans to purchase Visual Studio under any circumstances, and they want to either continue using VB6 or force it to be migrated to an even more antiquated development tool that I won't mention.
Does VB Express permit the creation of full blown desktop applications? Or is it sufficiently stripped down version of VB.NET that it won't really do anything? If I can rewrite this in an IDE that is *FREE*, no one can complain about the consequences if I rewrite it ahead of time.
I have a few apps at work that are written in VB6 and are becoming decidedly antiquated. But my division has no plans to purchase Visual Studio under any circumstances, and they want to either continue using VB6 or force it to be migrated to an even more antiquated development tool that I won't mention.
Does VB Express permit the creation of full blown desktop applications? Or is it sufficiently stripped down version of VB.NET that it won't really do anything? If I can rewrite this in an IDE that is *FREE*, no one can complain about the consequences if I rewrite it ahead of time.