Migrating Visual Basic 6 Windows Applications
Because migrating a really trivial application would be misleading and a really long application would easily consume dozens, perhaps hundreds, of pages, I picked a sample application to migrate. The application consists of a separate client and server and is available with MSDN. (You will need to have MSDN for Visual Studio 6 installed, or you can acquire a copy of the source code from Microsoft to repeat the steps described here.)
| Name | Comments |
|---|---|
| OLE Container Control | Leave it behind. |
| Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) | Consider using the SendMessage API method. |
| DAO or RDO | Consider upgrading to ADO in VB6 or ADO.NET in VB .NET. (You can use regular ADO in .NET through ... |
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