I purchased a copy of visual studio .net because I need to
maintain some VB5 and VB6 projects (was told it is no
longer possible to buy new licenses for VB6). I was told
the .net could be degraded to develop in VB6, but have no

This probably gets asked a lot but what are the best books a newbie to VBNET
with little to no programming experience should be reading to get well
acquainted with the language. Any thoughts on the following: Microsofts Step
by Step, Sams VBNET, Microsofts Coding Techniques for ...

This declare in VB 6 works great;
Private Declare Sub CopyMemory Lib "kernel32"  
Alias "RtlMoveMemory"(ByRef lpvDest As Any, ByRef
lpvSource As Any, ByVal cbCopy As Integer)

I need to find out how to create a path to an input file that's relative to
where the app is running.  For example, here's what I have so far:
       strProfile = "C:\MyProfile.prx"
Obviously this app will break quickly if the file isn't in the root, and I

After installing VSNet for several reasons I had to restore the system to
before the VSNet installation. I reinstalled VSNet no problem but now when I
open up VSNet a message pops up saying "Help is updating to reflect your
recent changes". Then a send dont send debug dialog appears ...

MS Customer
this is the latest version of security update, the
"September 2003, Cumulative Patch" update which fixes
all known security vulnerabilities affecting

I am doing conversion  VB6 project to VB.NET
in VB6:
CDATE(73991-36161) result 7/28/2003
in VB.NET

I have some structure which I have to pass to a unmanaged
dll which expects the data to be in memory just as it has
been in VB6. My problem is marchaling fixed length
strings and arrays correctly. Can anybody help to get me

MS Partner
this is the latest version of security update, the
"September 2003, Cumulative Patch" update which eliminates
all known security vulnerabilities affecting

Microsoft Customer
this is the latest version of security update, the
"September 2003, Cumulative Patch" update which resolves
all known security vulnerabilities affecting

I have a program i wrote in VB verison 4 or 5 and i want
to upgrade it to .net, but i'm gettting a visual basic
6.0 migration tool is not install error. please help if u
can.

I am hoping someone can point to an authoritative source
(e.g. MS site doco) for VB6 removal from MS product line.
I am finding most VB6 links in MS site disappearing, or
changed to .NET, but not yet seen any previous

Does VB.Net support Windows XP new Themes or Visual Styles?
I have written a small VB6 app that works fine on Win98,
NT4 and W2k but looks vertically squashed under WinXP.
Would recompiling it under VB.Net solve this issue?

I'm not sure whether this question classifies as VB, DOTNET or Visual
Studio.
Is it at all possible to create stand-alone applications in VB using the
latest Visual Studio .NET 2003? It seems as if that's not possible any more

I'm having major problems with a DataGrid on a Tab Control
in dozens of forms. What worked fine in .NET 2002 is
undeliverable in .NET 2003. I tried to convert to 2003
over the weekend and I have to make a fight or flight