Any pratical use for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET Pro

[Mark Hamilton]

Originally posted by evulish
Maybe the new controlelrs _don't_ use PBASIC (I will quit robotics if it were to ever switch to Visual Basic )

I think you will be the only one. PBASIC is one of the worst languages I've ever used. Of course the reason it's so bad is because of limitations in the hardware, but I would still take VB anyday. VB allows real object oriented programming, which would b the ideal approach to programming a robot imo.

As to the quality of VS, I was taught on Borland C++ and after a new teacher got me to try Visual Studio I've never looked back.

Also, the best thing about Filemaker Pro is it's the same thing FIRST uses. We used it exclusively for SOAP the first couple years. We've now moved onto ASP and SQL, but it gives you an idea of what filemaker is capable of. Our first year doing soap we were amazed to discover how much FIRST uses filemaker at competition.