Hi Hayden, Oh, I would imagine that would be a major undertaking for any game developer. The differences between VB 6 and VB .Net are quite sugnificant. For a developer that knows both it wouldn't be so much difficult as totally time consuming. Unfortunately, for a developer like Jim Kitchen he doesn't know VB .Net at all. In fact, he has said before that he doesn't understand object oriented programming and design which is necessary to program in any of the .Net languages as they are all object oriented. That would be quite a problem. I know back in 2006 after I got James North's source code for Montezuma's Revenge it took me about three months to convert the source from VB 6 to C# .Net. Since I know both languages it wasn't difficult, but was time consuming to convert it from one language to another. Now, assuming a developer converted ten games, taking three months to complete each, that is 30 months of work. That's more than two years of work just for ten games. Jim Kitchen has a lot more than that. I'd say that would be like three or four years of work minimum to convert all of his games to VB .Net.
HTH On 7/7/10, Hayden Presley <hdpres...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi Thomas, > Could you just imagine it? Jim, taking all of his games, and upgrading them > from VB 6 to VB .Net? Talk about a nightmare! Though, I can't say, since I > haven't really checked out .net, and my knowledge with VB6 is also quite > limited. > > Best Regards, > Hayden --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
