Visual Basic 6.0

Getting Started

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.

VB Fusion - Extend Your Visual Basic 6.0 Applications

Extend your Visual Basic 6.0 applications using the functionality of Visual Basic .NET and Visual Basic 2005 without upgrading. VB Fusion shows you how.

Migration - Upgrading from Visual Basic 6.0

Do you need help in upgrading your Visual Basic 6.0 applications to Visual Basic .NET or Visual Basic 2005? This section provides the necessary resources.

Featured Resources

Sales Support: A Hybrid Visual Basic 6.0 & Visual Basic 2005 Application
This new four-part series shows that it is not necessary to migrate a Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 application to Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 in order to take advantage of .NET functionality. The articles show how to integrate Desktop Search, mapping, and reporting capabilities to a Visual Basic 6 application using Visual Basic 2005 and the Interop Forms Toolkit.

Extend Visual Basic 6 ActiveX EXEs with Visual Basic 2005 and the Interop Forms Toolkit
Learn how to use classes in a Visual Basic 6 EXE from Visual Basic 2005, and how to bridge and extend the functionality of Visual Basic 6 ActiveX executables with the Visual Basic 2005 Interop Forms Toolkit.

Use the .NET Framework for Visual Basic 6 asynchronous file I/O
Learn how to pass information to a background thread from an existing Visual Basic 6 application and how the results of the background work can then return from the background thread to the Visual Basic 6 application.

Convert a data-oriented application from Visual Basic 6 to Visual Basic 2005
Ken Getz and Paul Sheriff investigate some new classes in Visual Studio 2005 and show you how to migrate your data-oriented application from Visual Basic 6.0 to Visual Basic 2005.

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Migration

Useful 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

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