I am sure there are many that would adamantly disagree that VB.Net is the
latest version of VB Classic. Your explanation infers that one should get
the latest, but since the OP's main use is going to be using the Windows
API, I don't think anything is further from the truth.

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy

"Jim Thomlinson" wrote in message
...
Both VB and VB.net are stand alone applications which can create
precompiled
executable files (don't need Excel or any other program to run). VBA is a
subset of VB6. It only works in conjuction with Office. VB.Net is the
latestest version of Visual Basic. Essentially it is VB7. There are more
differences between VB6 and VB.net than can be discussed on this form. In
a
nut shell VB.net is designed to work better with the other MS developement
applications like C# and C++, as they all compile to similar source code.
This means that VB6 code needs to be modified to complie under VB.net (no
more changing the option base, error handling is drastically changed,
every
project must have a "Main" procedure...). Also VB.net is truely object
oriented while VB6 is not (a little bit but not completely).

As Tom mentioned VB6 and VB.net can be purchased stand alone or as part of
the MS Developer Suite (The same way you can purchase just Excel or you
can
purchase the entire office suite).
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HTH...

Jim Thomlinson


"filo666" wrote:

Vould someone explainds me what's the difference betwen VB (the one of
office) and VB.net, and if them are different programmes, where I can
find
(buy or download) the .net version, also I'ld like to know if I can use
VB
without oppening any office program (excel, word or acces)
TIA