Coexisting with Visual Basic 6.0.jpg) Do you need to have both Visual Basic 6.0 and newer versions of Visual Basic deployed side-by-side in your environment?
This is not a problem with Visual Studio 2005. You can run Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2003, and Visual Basic 6.0 side-by-side on the same computer. There is no reason to completely rewrite your existing applications or code, but rather with the COM interop features of .NET, you can have your legacy Visual Basic 6.0 COM objects and code interact seamlessly with new .NET code.
The VB Fusion section of VBRun: The Visual Basic 6.0 Resouce Center provides extensive support on this topic. Check out this area for more information.
Select VB Fusion Topics- Using .NET from Visual Basic 6
Learn to use .NET from inside of your existing Visual Basic 6.0 applications. - Can I Interest You in 5000 Classes?
See how anything in the .NET Framework can be utilized in Visual Basic 6 by creating simple wrapper classes. This can let you quickly add powerful functionality to existing Visual Basic 6 applications, without the need to rewrite those applications in .NET. - Diagnose This
Dig into the functionality provided by the .NET Framework “System.Diagnostics” classes. - Using SQL Express from Visual Basic 6
Learn to use the no-cost version of SQL Server 2005, SQL Server Express, with your Visual Basic 6.0 applications.
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