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What's the best way to get hold of a copy of VB-6?
Is there anywhere that sells 2nd hand SW other than Ebay?
Do you really have to? you'd need an old copy of Microsoft visual studio I suspect - where you'd source that from I couldn't possibly say.
I guess it depends what you are doing but you 'may' be able to upgrade the source to vb.net using a tool and a later version of visual studio?
Depending on how legit you want to remain, I might be able to 'source' a copy of Visual Studio 6...
[url= http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/ms788232 ]Probably have a look round here[/url]
Maybe mail them. Any reason for using the old versions?
FYI, one method I can get it, is through an MSDN subscription. I have a big CD wallet with MS CDs (legit!), and VS6 is one of them.
I have some 3rd party VB-6 source code I'd like to use and integrate with some VBA code I've written. The simplest was seems to be to get hold of a copy of VB-6 and turn the VB-6 code into a DLL I can call from VBA?
I have some 3rd party VB-6 source code I'd like to use and integrate with some VBA code I've written.
cutting edge stuff...
Also being pretty fluent in VBA, I figure VB-6 will be pretty easy to use out the box.....
cutting edge stuff...
I'm not bothered how fashionable the code is, the source code will have a huge amount of development time, so I'm happy to use it...
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Sounds like VB6 will fit the purpose nicely
I have some 3rd party VB-6 source code I'd like to use and integrate with some VBA code I've written. The simplest was seems to be to get hold of a copy of VB-6 and turn the VB-6 code into a DLL I can call from VBA?
IIRC, converters are available?
Not sure to be honest - I've read that the converters for VBA to .NET aren't universal, and as a VB-6 DLL will do the job, it seems the simplest route to go.
VB dll's - all I can say I you are a braver man than I sir! Good luck and God speed!
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VB dll's - all I can say I you are a braver man than I sir!
plus he is using VBA!
never mind - it can't be a professional project - surely?
There are still VBA contracts out there at £650 per day, so I wouldn't be too down on the older stuff...
Just wouldn't go for it myself - better to try to stay current.
Legacy developers are laughing all the way to the bank.
Met a dev who was contracted by BAE to interface old COBOL code with a .NET platform.
£2k per day he charged. And had been doing it for 2yrs when I met him.... said he only started doing some programming contracts to help pay for his grandkids education! He only kept up to date with the .NET skills as he was a programmer in the 80s/90s, and it was a hobby...
Knew some batch programmers in London, who worked in the City on legacy banking systems - silly money!