The application will probably continue to run, but I'm less sure about the development tools. The last time I had to install Visual Studio 6 was on either Win7 or Win10, and it already seemed a ...

VB6 sends the data from the form to a new Excel spreadsheet using the file name you entered in the code. Launch Microsoft Excel and open the new spreadsheet created by the VB6 application.

Recently, I received a review copy of a book called “Visual Basic 2005: .NET Insight for Classic VB Programmers.” I hesitate to review it because the book made me wonder if anyone uses VB for ...

Microsoft's Visual Basic Team has released a new Visual Studio Power Pack called Interop Forms Toolkit 1.0. This toolkit allows developers to embed VB.Net forms inside a VB6 application.

It's effectively impossible to migrate VB6 applications to VB.Net, and for VB6 developers, learning VB.Net is as complex as learning a completely new programming language, critics say.

I'm trying to get a VB6 application to display a splash screen. It "was" working, and for the life of me I cannot figure out what's happened to change things.I am starting a Sub Main in a module ...

If you request a single instance application, Visual Basic looks first for another running copy of the application and switches to it, if possible. The code for this is not for the faint of heart, and ...

Technology Toolbox: Visual Basic, ASP.NET, XML M icrosoft's .NET initiative is tied closely with the concepts of SOA and Web services. Indeed, .NET was created with the intention of being an excellent ...

The VB6 Upgrade Center will provide information on how VB6 developers can continue to use their existing applications by using VB and VB.Net together, said Jay Roxe, product manager for Visual Basic.