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Visual Basic Developers Revolt Against Microsoft

Posted by Hemos on Monday March 14, 2005 @01:34AM from the the-battle-of-the-programmers dept.

daria42 writes "More than 100 Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) developers have signed a petition demanding the software company reconsider plans to end support for Visual Basic in its "classic" form. Developers claim the move could kill development on millions of Visual Basic 6 (VB6) applications and "strand" programmers that have not trained in newer languages."

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Re:Breaking news by shufler · 2005-03-14 02:43 · Score: 5, Informative

Actually, that's not the point at all. The language itself has changed drastically from 6 to .NET. The problem with applications created in VB6 is that they will not compile using the VB.NET compiler. These developers speaking out are talking about how Microsoft is dropping support for these people. Helping port code from legacy VB to VB.NET probably fits under the category of said support.