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[–] 114 points 12 hours ago (7 children)

Yeah but "half of our codebase is classic ASP and hasn't been updated since 2005" isn't really a valuable secret, is it?

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  • [–] 12 points 6 hours ago (5 children)

    I just shuddered

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  • [–] 8 points 6 hours ago (4 children)

    Ooh then I have a good campfire story for you.

    I know of a company who still has a VB.NET app running.

    There used to be more just a few years ago, but I've managed to get them to let me modernize most of them.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

    Isn't VB.Net just .Net with weird syntax for the loops and its?

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  • [–] 5 points 5 hours ago* (1 child)

    Pretty much. .NET 4.7.2

    It's the same normal view / control pattern but with VB for the logic instead of C#.

    There's also global pages with a bunch of events like error or pre/post request that probably exists in the C# version I guess, but I only remember dealing with it in VB

    This particular system also comes with a pure VB batch script running on a schedule.

    Just very old, frustrating to deal with, slammed in security audits.

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