·        How long have you been using VB?

6 Years

·        What industry do you work in?

Software Consulting.IT

·        How big is your development team?

10

·        What kind of apps do you most commonly build?

Web Portals, B2B Apps As a consultant, I get called upon to build a pretty broad variety of things.

·        What’s the most interesting app you’ve ever built?

I’m not one to pick favorites, since each has had its own set of challenges, but the VB/XNA stuff I’ve been doing has been a lot of fun. If I had to pick one, it would be my pet RPG project: Heroic Adventure! that I’ve been working on for a few years now. I started it in VB.NET 2003 and it’s still going strong.

·        Please tell us about an app that you’re working on at the moment.

I’m building a MVC application that does reporting with some 3rd party components and we’re also using quite a bit of JQuery. It’s proven to be an interesting challenge getting all the pieces working together properly.

·        What other technologies do you most commonly use?

SQL Server, Oracle and CMS

·        What are some of your favorite VB features?

Fast, easy to write and read.

·        What do you like most about VB as a programming language?

simple, easy to understand and write too. english is the only requirement 🙂

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