Ken, There are allot of technical reasons why VB.NET 2005 could not upgrade the Wrecking Ball from VB 6 to VB.NET 2005. Most of them is the languages are as completely different as daylight and dark. VB 6 wasn't very oop design oriented VB..NET 2005 is totally oop design oriented. VB 6 depended on it's own runtime libraries and the Win32 API, and VB.NET relies upon the .NET Framework. This is a massive incompatibility between the two languages. As for VB 2005 Express it is a good IDE. It is very similar to the Pro and Enterprise versions of Visual Studio 2005 except some features were wripped out. However, VB 2005 is a totally new IDE from VB 6. You'll have to learn the layout and hot keys for the new IDE to use it effectively. For example, to get to the VB toolbox once you are on your form do a control+w then the letter x to bring up the toolbox. As I mentioned earlier today in a prier post the toolbox itself has majorly changed and you will have to take some time familiarising yourself with the multicolumned toolbox. Another important hot key is use control+w followed by s to bring up the solution explorer. This will put you in a tree view where you can browse the files, resources, forms, etc in your project. To read the out put of your previous build or a list of errors do control+w followed by e and it will take you to the error output Window where you can use the up and down arrow keys to review it. I think a large part of your issues with VB 2005 Express is not knowing the hot keys to jump around the various child Windows to get where you need to go. Also I know that Window Eyes seams to do a better job of keeping track of these Windows than the shark, AKA Jaws. However, you are absolutely correct VB.NET 2005 does have an extremely large amount of info on the screen at once, and for someone sighted it is not a problem as they can just look at the area they are interested in. For us screen reader users it is a matter of knowing how to get the screen reader to jump to that child Window and stay there without wandering off in to another area we are not interested in. Fortunately, most screen readers like Window Eyes can shrink the mouse view down the the focused area rather than viewing the entire screen.
Ken the Crazy wrote: > me too--but I can't even begin to understand vb2005--maybe it's just that I > am using express? All I know is there are too many things on screen at > once, and it couldn't upgrade the wrecking ball from vb6 for me--so unless I > can learn vb.net I'm sticking with vb6. > Ken Downey > President > DreamTechInteractive! > > And, > Coming soon, > Blind Comfort! > The pleasant way to get a massage--no staring, just caring. > _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
