Office's Visual Basic for Applications is a subset,
syntactically, of Visual Basic
Actually is at once both a subset and a superset, but all of its "subset" is
understandable to VB6 programmers.
and its successor Visual Basic .NET and is . . .
VB.Net is NOT the successor to Visual Basic (VB6). VB.Net is a different
language. Microsoft developed a new and different language and they then
sprinkled lots of "VB sounding" constructs on top of it in a dishonest
attempt to fool people into thinking it is merely an "update" to VB6, when
in fact it is nothing of the sort. The new version of Delphi is just as much
a successor to VB6 as VB.Net is!
You've obviously been fooled, but we haven't. None of this says anything
about the actual merits of VB.Net of course. In many ways it may be better
than VB6 and in many ways it may be worse. It is just "different". If
Micro$oft had not lied to me then I might have actually bought it myself to
try it out. But I do not trust Micro$oft, because they lied to me, and so
they shall not be getting another penny of my hard earned money. And neither
shall I accept a free copy of VB.Net from simply because they have now
realised how difficult it is to sell!
Mike
Mike