VB.NET isn’t all that uncommon - it isn’t exactly Fortran, and it’s still maintained by Microsoft. I know a senior engineer that still writes a lot of new code in VB.NET because he’s just used to it…
It’s the same normal view / control pattern but with VB for the logic instead of C#.
There’s also global pages with a bunch of events like error or pre/post request that probably exists in the C# version I guess, but I only remember dealing with it in VB
This particular system also comes with a pure VB batch script running on a schedule.
Just very old, frustrating to deal with, slammed in security audits.
Yeah but “half of our codebase is classic ASP and hasn’t been updated since 2005” isn’t really a valuable secret, is it?
“You update it using this 509MB excel spreadsheet that has been worked on since June 1993, nobody really knows how it works.”
I just shuddered
Ooh then I have a good campfire story for you.
I know of a company who still has a VB.NET app running.
There used to be more just a few years ago, but I’ve managed to get them to let me modernize most of them.
VB.NET isn’t all that uncommon - it isn’t exactly Fortran, and it’s still maintained by Microsoft. I know a senior engineer that still writes a lot of new code in VB.NET because he’s just used to it…
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Isn’t VB.Net just .Net with weird syntax for the loops and ifs?
Pretty much. .NET 4.7.2
It’s the same normal view / control pattern but with VB for the logic instead of C#.
There’s also global pages with a bunch of events like error or pre/post request that probably exists in the C# version I guess, but I only remember dealing with it in VB
This particular system also comes with a pure VB batch script running on a schedule.
Just very old, frustrating to deal with, slammed in security audits.
As an Australian, I understand what happened. They were all drinking VB while coding it.
Its not even that interesting. Working with Visual Basic is coding with all the fun sucked out of it.
OoooooOOOOOOooooo…
It is when you’re working at the communications office for a major military base.