Sales Support: A Hybrid Visual Basic 6.0 & Visual Basic 2005 Application

This is a four-part series of articles to show 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. "Sales Support" is a very simple sales-force support application that allows the user to look up accounts, contacts, and forecasted sales. The application is not intended to be a complete sales-force automation solution. Instead, it is designed to be a representative placeholder for an existing line-of-business Visual Basic 6.0 application. In addition, it serves as the anchor for a number of logical application enhancements that are best implemented by using Visual Basic 2005.

In This Section

• Enhancing an Application with Windows Desktop Search and Office Outlook Integration
  This article, the first in a 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.

• Enhancing a Visual Basic 6.0 Application with MapPoint Web Service
  This article, the second in a four-part series, demonstrates how to use .NET functionality to expand and modernize a Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 application by adding mapping capabilities via the Microsoft MapPoint Web Service API.

• Enhancing a Visual Basic 6.0 Application with the ReportViewer Control
  This article, the third in a four-part series, shows how to include modern, simple-to-configure Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 reporting components within an existing Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 application.

• Deploying the Hybrid Visual Basic 6.0 and Visual Basic .NET Application
  This article—the last in a four-part series that walks through enhancing an existing Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 application by using functionality that is expected of modern applications—focuses solely on deployment considerations.