Difference between VBA and VB.net or .net

[JohnSeito]

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone know the difference between VBA and VB.net/ .net ?

Are they similar in many ways, can one know VBA and can easily pick up and create VB.net applications
and code it easily ?

From what I have gather reading regarding it's difference is that VBA is older and obsolete and VB.net is more modern.
In addition, it is a lowest-level human-readable programming language. Are this correct ?

What kind of application and program, software is VB.net use for ?

What is your opinion on the two language, I have not use VB.net before and was wondering how difficult it would be
to transition to it.

Thanks !!!

 

[JackHoff]

I tried VB.Net as my first programming language, with Intellisence that is built in and all the forums available and the MSDN KB to search through along with many video series MS offers online for free, I found the learning curve fairly easy if you concider asking lots of questions on a dozen forums making it fairly easy, I liked it a lot, I built a calculator that told me how much time I would need to read a book based on what chapters looked interesting vs the uninteresting and the number of pages in the interesting and the very interesting chapters where I could spend detailed time vs skimming or skipping. Think of the Table of Contents of a Chemistry Book as your subject. Mine was the Automotive field of study, worked great, made my day much more productive and only took a couple of minutes to load the numbers manually for the entire book, push a button within a program that I designed the entire deal, and the answers popped up in a second, DONE.

VB.net is like making your own program from code that is already designed to do a certain job and you design the entire visual job at hand (winforms), while VBA is make your own program from code this is already designed to do a certain job within Excel, Word, Access or any other already made program that you wish to modify or simplify.