Hello all,

We want to start developing our project in .NET environment but at present we have got VB 6.0 installed on our programmer machines. For existing system we can't get rid of VB 6.0.

1. Is it possible to install Visual Studio 2005 on the same machine or need to install in other machine?

2. If we install VS 2005 and VB 6.0 on the same machine, if we create an .EXE file for our existing project, our users doesn't have .NET framework. Will this cause a problem?

3. What is the best way to use both VB 6.0 and VS 2005? We want to go from VB 6.0 to ASP.NET with C#.

Please help me out for to find the solution.

Thanks,
Jay

Jay Punjani
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E-Mail: JAY.PUNJANI@ST-DUNSTANS.ORG.UK
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You can install Visual Studio 2005 and all its components on the same machine a VB6. It wont cause a problem.

Projects created in Visual Studio 2005 will need the .NET framework to run. This can be installed separately or can be included in an installation package with the application.

Projects created with VB6 will continue to work as before.

You cannot use VB6 and VS 2005 interchangeably. You will need to convert your VB6 projects to VB.NET and that is no trivial task.

Do a search on Microsoft's Web Site. There is loads of information on converting from VB6 to .NET and a application that will attempt to do the conversion for you. Invariably you will a lot of functions, methods etc that will have to be converted manually.

Stuart

Thanks Stuart.

I want to know many more things about .NET migration. Probably I will go and look at the Microsoft website but sometimes it's better to find out from some experienced people.

Cheers
Jay

Jay Punjani
0207 616 7975
E-Mail: JAY.PUNJANI@ST-DUNSTANS.ORG.UK
St-Dunstans
Project Manager