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Accepted answer: 500 points for Martin Liss's comment #a40767145 [https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/28670136/Creating-iOS-App-with-VB6-ASP-background.html?anchorAnswerId=40767145#a40767145]

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I hope this is not too late to get you your points. &nbsp;Thanks so much for the help!
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I hope this is not too late to get you your points.  Thanks so much for the help!

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I have begun my road to turning one of my web services into an iOS app. &nbsp;I have downloaded xCode and following a training program for Swift. &nbsp;I have a couple of questions:<br />
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1) Is Swift sort of like the Visual Basic for the iOS?<br />
2) Is there anything like &quot;Option Explicit&quot; in this environment to ensure variable declarations?<br />
3) Can anyone think of another resource for comparing the differences between my &quot;old&quot; world and my &quot;new&quot; world? &nbsp;I know it is a quantum leap in many respects...just trying to lessen the learning curve.<br />
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Thank you!!!
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I have begun my road to turning one of my web services into an iOS app.  I have downloaded xCode and following a training program for Swift.  I have a couple of questions:

1) Is Swift sort of like the Visual Basic for the iOS?
2) Is there anything like "Option Explicit" in this environment to ensure variable declarations?
3) Can anyone think of another resource for comparing the differences between my "old" world and my "new" world?  I know it is a quantum leap in many respects...just trying to lessen the learning curve.

Thank you!!!

Creating iOS App with VB6/ASP background

iOS is a mobile operating system developed by Apple; it is a derivative of the Mac OS X desktop operating system, with which it shares many (but not all) common frameworks and other components. These include Cocoa Touch, the Mach/Darwin/XNU kernel and code from the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). Each iOS application runs in its own secure sandbox to prevent altering other applications, the operating system, or any other data.

Visual Basic is Microsoft’s event-driven programming language and integrated development environment (IDE) for its Component Object Model (COM) programming model. It is relatively easy to learn and use because of its graphical development features and BASIC heritage. It has been replaced with VB.NET, and is very similar to VBA (Visual Basic for Applications), the programming language for the Microsoft Office product line.

Visual Basic Classic

Swift is a compiled programming language created for iOS, OS X, watchOS, tvOS and Linux development by Apple Inc. Swift is designed to work with Apple's Cocoa and Cocoa Touch frameworks and the large body of existing Objective-C code written for Apple products. Swift is intended to be more resilient to erroneous code ("safer") than Objective-C and also more concise. It is built with the LLVM compiler framework included in Xcode 6 and later and uses the Objective-C runtime, which allows C, Objective-C, C++ and Swift code to run within a single program. A second free implementation of Swift targets Microsoft's Common Language Infrastructure (a.k.a. .NET) and the Java/Android platform.