Hello! I am pretty comfortable with vb.net and i can say i can find my way around building a program in it. I mostly design programs containing custom controls (buttons, labels, pictureboxes, etc), looking like this:
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However, the program become more and more complex, and now, in the load event of any form, i have hundreds of statements, which makes them take more than 10 seconds to display. I want to overstep this difficulty and i found out that vb.net can sometimes be pretty slow, because it is "managed" code (?). Some people suggested me i should stick with native c++, which should build programs that execute much faster, are more robust and offer a greater control over the programming. I also always wanted to learn c++, so this sounds appealing to me![:)]()
However, being almost a noob in c++, i have few questions: using native code, is the program still dependent on the .net framework? I do not want this! Also, can i make custom controls using native code? Is native code meaning that my programs would be cross-platform ( i would love to be able to achieve this, also)? Nonetheless, i pretty much used myself to program in visual studio. Can i write programs in VC++ containing those custom controls in such way that they won't be .net dependent? If not, is there a good c++ IDE that would offer me visual GUI for developing programs? I am sorry if some of my questions may seem stupid, but i dont want to start coding a program that would take months to develop, just to find out i did something wrong and that it was a better way to do it. Thank you very much in advance!
.However, the program become more and more complex, and now, in the load event of any form, i have hundreds of statements, which makes them take more than 10 seconds to display. I want to overstep this difficulty and i found out that vb.net can sometimes be pretty slow, because it is "managed" code (?). Some people suggested me i should stick with native c++, which should build programs that execute much faster, are more robust and offer a greater control over the programming. I also always wanted to learn c++, so this sounds appealing to me
However, being almost a noob in c++, i have few questions: using native code, is the program still dependent on the .net framework? I do not want this! Also, can i make custom controls using native code? Is native code meaning that my programs would be cross-platform ( i would love to be able to achieve this, also)? Nonetheless, i pretty much used myself to program in visual studio. Can i write programs in VC++ containing those custom controls in such way that they won't be .net dependent? If not, is there a good c++ IDE that would offer me visual GUI for developing programs? I am sorry if some of my questions may seem stupid, but i dont want to start coding a program that would take months to develop, just to find out i did something wrong and that it was a better way to do it. Thank you very much in advance!