keithdoxey
- 31st July 2007, 23:08
Hi All,
as you can probably guess by my presence on the PicBasic forum, I am a "Basic" type of guy and for several years have been using VB6 for windows applications and ASP for my intranet application.
Today I started work on a new VB6 application similar to one I developed about 3 or 4 years and discovered that Microsoft have stuffed up VB6 by updating the webbrowser controls during the IE7 update.
After much googling I found a resolution to the missing control but also found that lots of people were getting runtime errors whilst developing. Sure enough, I got the same errors but if I compile the project the executable works OK but it is a real pain having to keep recompiling after every change of code :(
This has set me thinking that maybe I should be moving to Visual Basic 2005 and ASP.net as Microsoft seem to be making life difficult for their older programs. I did "try" to use VB.net when it first came out but as most of my VB program include com ports I didnt have any success.
Likewise, someone at work decided that a new intranet project should be done in ASP.net despite the fact that none of the developers had done any courses. I knocked up a proof of concept design for the look and feel using ASP in about a day but after several weeks and everyone trying to solve the problems there was one bit we could not get to work in ASP.net !!!
Obviously there is a lot more help available a few years down the line so that should make learning the new structure and methods easier so I am thinking of taking the plunge.
The big question is....
Can Visual Basic 6 and Visual Basic 2005 happily co-exist on the same machine or is installing VB2005 going to break my existing VB6 install?
as you can probably guess by my presence on the PicBasic forum, I am a "Basic" type of guy and for several years have been using VB6 for windows applications and ASP for my intranet application.
Today I started work on a new VB6 application similar to one I developed about 3 or 4 years and discovered that Microsoft have stuffed up VB6 by updating the webbrowser controls during the IE7 update.
After much googling I found a resolution to the missing control but also found that lots of people were getting runtime errors whilst developing. Sure enough, I got the same errors but if I compile the project the executable works OK but it is a real pain having to keep recompiling after every change of code :(
This has set me thinking that maybe I should be moving to Visual Basic 2005 and ASP.net as Microsoft seem to be making life difficult for their older programs. I did "try" to use VB.net when it first came out but as most of my VB program include com ports I didnt have any success.
Likewise, someone at work decided that a new intranet project should be done in ASP.net despite the fact that none of the developers had done any courses. I knocked up a proof of concept design for the look and feel using ASP in about a day but after several weeks and everyone trying to solve the problems there was one bit we could not get to work in ASP.net !!!
Obviously there is a lot more help available a few years down the line so that should make learning the new structure and methods easier so I am thinking of taking the plunge.
The big question is....
Can Visual Basic 6 and Visual Basic 2005 happily co-exist on the same machine or is installing VB2005 going to break my existing VB6 install?