Upgrade for Visual Basic 6.0 Users (How Do I in Visual Basic Express)

This page links to help on getting up and running with Visual Basic 2005 if you're coming from a Visual Basic 6.0 background. To view other categories of popular tasks covered in Help, see How Do I in Visual Basic Express.

Getting Started in Visual Basic Express

Visual Basic Express includes tools for upgrading your Visual Basic 6.0 program, including an Upgrade Wizard.

• Help for Visual Basic 6.0 Users
  Highlights changes to various Visual Basic 6.0 features.

• What's New for Visual Basic 6.0 Users
  Describes new and improved language features—such as inheritance, interfaces, overriding, shared members, and overloading; also describes changes to the IDE and the new Forms package.

• Walkthrough: Upgrading a Visual Basic 6.0 Application to the Current Version of Visual Basic
  Shows how to upgrade a Visual Basic graphics sample application to Visual Basic 2005. In addition to illustrating the upgrading process, this walkthrough highlights the differences in graphics architectures between Visual Basic 6.0 and Visual Basic 2005.

• Preparing a Visual Basic 6.0 Application for Upgrading
  Details how you can optimize your upgrade with just a little bit of preparation.

  By following the recommendations in this topic, you can minimize or, in some cases, eliminate having to make changes after upgrading your project to Visual Basic 2005.

• Things to Consider Before Upgrading
  Describes areas where compatibility with previous versions is broken.

• Development with My
  Describes a Visual Basic feature designed to provide access to information and default object instances that are related to the application and its run-time environment.

Upgrade a Visual Basic 6 Application

• Working with Both Visual Basic 6.0 and the Current Version of Visual Basic
  Highlights changes to various Visual Basic 6.0 features.

• How to: Upgrade a Project with the Visual Basic Upgrade Wizard
  Explains how to upgrade your Visual Basic 6.0 project to Visual Basic 2005.

• Language Recommendations for Upgrading
  Lists recommendations when preparing an application for upgrade or when developing Visual Basic 6.0 applications that might later be upgraded.

Work with Data

• Data Access for Visual Basic 6.0 Users
  Describes a number of differences, both conceptually and in terms of tasks, between ADO and ADO.NET.

• Comparison of ADO.NET and ADO
  Explains ADO.NET for those familiar with ADO.

MSDN Express Library for Visual Basic Express--Learn the .NET Framework

These following topics in the Library are designed to help you learn about the .NET Framework. You need to have the MSDN Express Library installed or have access to MSDN Online library.

• .NET Framework Conceptual Overview
  Explains the features of the common language runtime and the .NET Framework class library.

• Comparison of ADO.NET and ADO
  Explains ADO.NET for those familiar with ADO.

• Introduction to the .NET Framework Class Library in Visual Studio
  Explains how to use namespaces and assemblies.

• Visual Basic and the .NET Framework
  Provides links to key topics explaining how Visual Basic and the .NET Framework work together.

• COM Interop
  Describes COM Interop in the context of Visual Basic applications.

• .NET Development on MSDN Online
  Provides links to downloads, articles, newsgroups, user groups, and other resources. https://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/

• FAQ about the .NET Framework
  Answers common questions about the runtime, assemblies, deployment, remoting, interoperability, and security. https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/

• Additional Resources for Visual Basic Programmers
  For information on the various Microsoft and third-party sites for Visual Basic.

Other Resources

These Web sites are excellent resources for finding more information, seeing what other Express users are doing, and stay in touch as the Visual Basic Express Edition community grows.

• Visual Basic Developer Center
  Central location for information about Visual Basic. Includes case studies, new tools, and other downloads.

• Coding4Fun
  Includes lots of articles and coding tips geared to the Express user.

• Visual Basic 6.0 Resource Center
  Here's extra help for Visual Basic 6.0 developers looking to upgrade or make Visual Basic 6.0 and Visual Basic 2005 play together.

See Also

Concepts

How Do I in Visual Basic Express