Can't develop unmanaged VB with VS.NET 2003?

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nickdu - 30 Aug 2006 16:39 GMT

Is it true you can't develop unmanaged VB (obviously since it's VB there is a
runtime so it's sort of managed, but I mean non-.NET, ala VB6) with VS.NET
2003? We're looking over what tools we need for a developer's desktop and
one of the application we're working on is a VB6 application. I guess we
can't build that with VS.NET 2003?

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Nick

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Ian Murphy - 30 Aug 2006 16:59 GMT

Nope, got to have vb6.0 ide etc. Having had to support vb6 applications
passed onto us from other software shops my advise is, unless its for
distribution to the wide public or is publishing com controls, migrate it
to vb.net.

It will be faster than wasting time with the crappy controls and tools in
vb6.0. Doesn't matter if its got 1000 or 100,000 lines, translating it will
be faster.

Ian

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Gerry Hickman - 30 Aug 2006 23:56 GMT

> It will be faster than wasting time with the crappy controls and tools in
> vb6.0. Doesn't matter if its got 1000 or 100,000 lines, translating it will
> be faster.

Phew, I'm glad I never went near VB.AnyThing

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Carlos J. Quintero [VB MVP] - 31 Aug 2006 11:43 GMT

Hi Nick,

Definitely VS.NET can not work with VB6 code without conversion or produce a
VB6 exe.

It can interop with COM, but that's all.

You need the VB6 IDE for that application.

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> Is it true you can't develop unmanaged VB (obviously since it's VB there
> is a
> runtime so it's sort of managed, but I mean non-.NET, ala VB6) with VS.NET
> 2003? We're looking over what tools we need for a developer's desktop and
> one of the application we're working on is a VB6 application. I guess we
> can't build that with VS.NET 2003?

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