http://www.vb6.co.uk/ en-gb Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:09:05 GMT http://www.vb6.co.uk/Blog/2009/02/Moving-from-Visual-Basic-6VB6-to-VBNET/ e0798efc-0851-48c3-aa1d-ee2d740fd9f9 ddd, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss GMT <p>Many companies have invested a huge amount of time, money&nbsp;and resource in developing applications built in VB6.&nbsp; Even though VB6 first came out around 1996, many of these applications are still being successfully used today.</p> <p>Microsoft is well aware of this existing VB6 application based, but have now released a new area of the MSDN site to help developers and companies migrate from Visual Basic 6 to Microsoft.NET.</p> <p>There are several options available including &quot;do nothing&quot; to a complete rewrite.</p> <p>On Microsoft's site at: <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/dd408373.aspx">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/dd408373.aspx</a> developers can read about the options available and also win copies of migration tools that do the majority or all the reprogramming work for you.</p> <p>Its quite a comprehensive resource, and for those VB6 developers who've never used Microsoft .NET, you'll be pleasantly surprised at how easy and quick it is to develop code.&nbsp; Testing is easier, the end product is graphically better and overall, moving to Microsoft .NET should be the way forward - so why not visit Microsoft's <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/dd408373.aspx">VB6 Migration</a> site and read how to do it.</p>