VB6 Support Almost Over

Attention all developers: If you did not know that Visual Basic 6 (VB6) support ends in 2 more weeks, you should now. According to MSDN online, VB6's "Mainstream" support will end on March 31, 2005. The extended phase will last until March of 2008. There is a ton of controversy over whether the support should continue or not. If you think it should continue, visit http://classicvb.org/petition/. Many well known Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) and other developers have already signed this online petition.

What's your opinion? Should support continue or not and why?
Published Wednesday, March 16, 2005 12:21 PM by Jason N. Gaylord
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# re: VB6 Support Almost Over

Wednesday, March 16, 2005 12:58 PM by Chad Myers
Microsoft needs to drop unmanaged code support as quick as they can. Managed code is the only hope to escape the torrent of buffer overflow and other security bugs that plaugue all systems (not just Microsoft).

They also need to ditch COM as quick as possible.

Given that, what is VB6's purpose? I mean, c'mon, is it REALLY that hard to go from VB6 to VB.NET? In compatibility mode, VB.NET is virtually indistinguishable from VB6 except for that "Public Class" at the top and even then it's pretty similar.

You don't *HAVE* to use the advanced OO stuff at first. It's not that hard people, c'mon.

I would make the argument that even VB.NET has no purpose. I would say make a VB.NET only operate in compatibility mode and not allow you to do advanced .NET stuff. When you're ready to do something serious, then you can make the transition to C#.

Learning full-blown VB.NET is as difficult as learning C#, so why even have VB.NET (non-compatibility) in the first place?

# More on the VB6 Drama

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# re: VB6 Support Almost Over

Wednesday, March 16, 2005 3:43 PM by Wallym
http://weblogs.asp.net/wallym/archive/2005/03/09/391382.aspx

and

http://weblogs.asp.net/wallym/archive/2005/03/09/391415.aspx

# re: VB6 Support Almost Over

Wednesday, March 16, 2005 4:31 PM by Jeff
I don't think it is that hard to learn VB.NET. I know far less qualified people than MVP's that have done it.

http://weblogs.asp.net/jeff/archive/2005/03/09/391400.aspx

# re: VB6 Support Almost Over

Thursday, March 17, 2005 12:59 AM by Richard Tallent
"Support" = your two free tech support calls after installing VB6. Get over it and move on.

The only people who haven't moved on are (a) companies who are still bitter over having to give up their horse-and-buggy delivery wagons and (b) "programmers" in name only who shouldn't touch code any more than I should be calibrating the space shuttle's rockets.

# re: VB6 Support Almost Over

Thursday, March 17, 2005 8:42 AM by Jason N. Gaylord
I still don't want to comment on this subject, but I must say, I had to install VS 6.0 on my machine yesterday. I thought it was funny to see all the *new* features. ;)

Not to scare anyone, but did you know XP support will be dropped 2 years after Longhorn?

Attn Open Source Gurus: Does Red Hat, Mandrake, Sun, etc drop support for old versions of Linux/Unix?

# re: VB6 Support Almost Over

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 2:32 PM by David Walker
"If you did not know that Visual Basic 6 (VB6) support ends in 2 more weeks" What a misleading sentence! To echo what Richard Tallent said, support for VB is not ending. The two or four free support incidents that were included with the purchase of VB will expire. Support for VB is not ending though, and if you already used up your free incidents, then the change won't affect you at all. If you have MSDN or a Premier support contract, then the change won't affect you at all.

# re: VB6 Support Almost Over

Tuesday, March 22, 2005 3:01 PM by David
You don't have to convince me that support is not ending. I know what's ending and what's not. The fact is that VB6 is being phased out starting in 9 days.

# re: VB6 Support Almost Over

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Its the Era of .Net Framework.  VB is dead, long live .NET

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