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VB 5.0 and vb 6.0 differences
Name: nascent (by mboto) Date: July 23, 2003 at 13:42:30 Pacific OS: win98 CPU/Ram: 600/256
Comment:
Does anyone know where i can get a comprehensive list of the differences between vb5 and 6? I'm making a VB program that heavily uses Access databases and i'm learning from a VB 5 book
Name: Chi Happens Date: July 26, 2003 at 20:42:40 Pacific
Reply:
I don't know of a place that has a comprehensive list, but I can tell you that the biggest difference between VB5 and VB6 was the creation of ADODB objects. (you can use them in VB5 if you install the objects on a system) but most VB5 books probably are using RDO which was the standard way to interface with a database just prior to VB6 becoming available.
But to clarify, ADO and RDO are not part of VB5 or VB6, they are part of Windows. Microsoft decided that ADO (activex data objects) offered more flexibility than RDO (remote data objects) so that became the standard.
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