need recommendation on a program.. help!

[PeLiGrOsO]

hello gang...
my friend at work has a daughter that will be teaching various programing languages to high school students and was given the choice of sofware she will be using. she can choose between VISUAL STUDIO 6.0 or VISUAL STUDIO.NET. She mentions she does not have tons of programing experience other than a few classes in grad school, so here are the questions.
what is the difference between both programs?
which one will be easier to use with her background?
any extra information will be helpful...

thanks so much in advanced.

Peligroso

[kato2274]

since she doesn't have a ton of experience right now, I'd probably say .net because if you gotta learn something, why not learn the most current version.

the minimal programming I do, I do in vb6 still, because I tried vb.net and attempted to convert my old vb6 projects and had nothing but problems so I uninstalled it and went back to vb6 and we are mighty happy together.

[PeLiGrOsO]

thanks KATO, i will forward the message, hopefully more people will reply and get more ideas...

thanks again.

P

[JPnyc]

I would say 6.0. If you don't have a lot of programming experience, VB6 is easier to learn for the novice programmer than .NET.

[John_K]

I agree with Kato. Even though I am terrible with .Net, its the way of the future. MS has announced the end-of-life for VB6 so any official support will be ending soon. On the other hand there are so many sites with free sample code for VB6 that a waterhead could learn it. I have used VB6 and VBA for about 5 yrs and have found the changeover troublesome. In my experience an equivient .exe is much larger in .Net(compiled) and seem to run slower on my equipment but YMMV. With a bit of persistance most of the old VB6 methods can be made to work with .Net 2002 and 2003. Visual Studio 2005 is on the verge of release just to add another nail to Studio 6's coffin. Just my $.02.... good luck

[kgriffith]

VB.net studios would be the way to go. It is complete and somewhat easier to use. In otherwords a caveman can do it. LOL seriously though it would be easier in my opinion cause the scripts are easier to set properties and all to. Remember that VB is object orienated so once you got that down right it wont take much to teach the students.