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[Vamps]

I don't understand any of this. I switch my laptop on and connect to the internet and go from there.

[cem_devecioglu]

as a programmer I need a stable and widely used environment

so still xp pro..

I use a mix of XP Pro and Vista for actual programming.  Tending to use more Vista now, catches my bad programming habits earlier

What sort of programming do you do?

Whatever needs doing, on whatever platform needs it.

I seem to spend most of the day now in Visual Objects, adding new features all the time. Still suffering from having the best DOS programmes in our market, makes Windows harder.

.NET is undoubtedly the easiest platform to code for, followed by Win32.  All the others are cumbersome in comparison...

Definitely

[cem_devecioglu]

We are going .net for the next version, investigating other database engines, but I am sure we will stay with Advantage Database Server.

I'm going to get a C.NET course though

I don't want to know Visual bloody Basic - it's crap!

Cant see functional difference between C.net and vb.net  or else..

except unreadable crap C syntax (by the way I coded in C under unix many years)

[cem_devecioglu]

We are going .net for the next version, investigating other database engines, but I am sure we will stay with Advantage Database Server.

I'm going to get a C.NET course though

I don't want to know Visual bloody Basic - it's crap!

vb.net, esp 2005 and 2008 versions is much better than the old ones.  language is irrelevent in .net.  My own view is c# and vb.net are the most productive, c++ is a bit clunky in .net.

if you're going .net, ms-sql will become the natural db choice, due to excellent integration, and the freebie version is good enough for most things (replication aside)

Cant tell better..Thanks

[cem_devecioglu]

And for vb6.. still the most quick and easy (at least for me)  development language for one specific task although the executable is not that fast..

But main advantage for vb6 is it works cooperatively with all office and sql environments..And there are millions of free activex components to download and use in a minute..

And it never requires a powerful machine..And if the machine is above pentium   you can do serious tasks like multi huge dimensional annual report calculations vice versa..

One example in ex-previous job in a bank (with 800 branches) yearly income balances and some critical calculations were done in a P3-500 machine with 512 Mb of ram within 3 minutes..(And some raid SCSI disks)

And .net.. Of course everthing here is a bit different..

Sometimes the compiled codes of vb6 and .net can reach a ratio of 1/30 in execution times as net is multithreaded..  (matrix transposition)

But for .net you need a plan for objects, methods ..Requires more time for design..

However for all these environments if you want efficiency you need a rich library of codes and objects..