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Sep 05, 2017
Installing and using Visual Basic 6
I have been using Visual Basic for 20 years, starting with teach Version 4 in high school. I have written six applications with its Version 5 for a local nonprofit running Windows 7 Pro. I bought Version 6 because I was afraid that the next iteration of Windows (i.e., 10 and successors) would bring down my apps. The literature I reviewed said it runs on Windows 10. I recompiled the Version 5 code with Version 6 and loaded it on a server running Windows Server 2012. There seems to be no problems so far, but I haven't finished intensive testing. (BTW limited testing indicates that my Version 5 program run on Windows 10).
Installing VB Version6 inside of Visual Studio 6 in non-intuitive, but the vendor's instructions were good. Warning the version I bought did not include the MSDN library, so you can't use the Help module without it. I had to buy it separately and was disappointed with its poor (compared to VB Version 5's) Help documentation. Better to buy a good book on VB Version 6 -- or keep coding with VB 5 and its Help module and just recompile it with Version 6.