[Year 12 SofDev] VB6 > VB2010 musings

[Mark KELLY]

I've finally bitten the bullet, crawled out my comfort zone (and used
several other clichés) in moving from comfortable ol' threadbare VB6 into
shiny new VB2010 and the transition is not as smooth as I'd hoped it would
be.

The first hurdle I ran into was finding that my favourite old control arrays
have been killed and now I need convoluted complex collections to achieve
nearly the same thing. I read of a rumour that control arrays (wherein VB
manages the necessary classes and collections behind the scenes) would be
reinstated in VB but it seems not to be happening.

And it seems default properties no longer work, e.g. *textbox2="Fred"* has
to be fully spelled out as *textbox2.text="Fred"*.

Sigh. I suppose I'll get used to it in time (after all, I *did* manage to
get from QB4.5 to Visual Basic 1.0), but for a quick hack I still fall back
to VB6 to get the job done.

-- 
Mark Kelly
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McKinnon Secondary College
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