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·        How long have you been using VB?

6 years

·        What industry do you work in?

Information technology – Retail currently

·        How big is your development team?

2 members

·        What kind of apps do you most commonly build?

Web applications – Elearning & retail marketing

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

ELearning – The way the data abstraction layer was built is very nice. I have used ADO.Net and it simply amazes me. Recently I tried using the ADO.NET Entity Framework, and it’s very good with its persistence.

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

The app I am working is a retail web application.

·        What other technologies do you most commonly use?

C#, PHP, Javascript, VBScript, SQL Server, Informix

·        What are some of your favorite VB features?

1.Option Strict On /Off 

2.Dynamic Typing

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

The ease of coding with VB.Net is very good. It’s so developer friendly. It’s easy to code.

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