Visual Basic 6.0 Resource Center

Find the best content for Visual Basic 6 development, .NET interoperability, and migration here.

Getting Started

	1. Microsoft Support Strategy Key Visual Basic 6.0 runtime files, used in the majority of application scenarios, are shipping in and supported for the lifetime of Windows 7. Find out what support options are available to you.
	2. Visual Basic 6.0 Resources You will find plenty of resources here for developing in Visual Basic 6.0 including links to the MSDN Library, technical articles, and code samples.
	3. Extend Your Visual Basic 6.0 Applications Extend your Visual Basic 6.0 applications using the functionality of Visual Basic .NET without upgrading. These resources show you how.
	4. Upgrading from Visual Basic 6.0 Do you need help in upgrading your Visual Basic 6.0 applications to Visual Basic .NET? This section provides the necessary resources.

Featured Blog

Eric Nelson
Goto 100 - Development with Visual Basic. Eric on all things VB!

ClickOnce and Security
ClickOnce deployment is another area where Code Access Security needs to be kept in mind. ClickOnce deployments will often be used to deploy Visual Basic .NET (or hybrid Interop Toolkit) applications... more
Monday, Jun 15

Introducing code obfuscation
If you recall from an earlier post, I said that the main reason for signing an assembly and giving it a strong name was to prevent it being tampered with. For example, many of the assemblies that make... more
Friday, Jun 12

Code Access Security in action – calling Unmanaged Code
The following is an example of how code access security might affect your code when calling unmanaged code. Unmanaged code is a posh way of saying “It isn’t .NET code, it is the stuff you used to writ... more
Thursday, Jun 11

Authenticode and ActiveX controls
For VB6 developers, one area where asymmetric keys and digital signatures cropped up was the requirement to sign downloadable ActiveX controls using Authenticode. The idea was to sign the controls usi... more
Wednesday, Jun 10

Cryptography
The second big security area in the .NET framework after Authentication and Authorisation is cryptography. Again, the framework contains a lot of powerful functionality, and again there is an applicat... more
Tuesday, Jun 9

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