What is Microsoft’s Visual Basic 6 Support Strategy?

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# Greg said on September 17, 2009 5:23 PM:

Is there a tool to find and locate any DLL, EXE, etc that is compiled VB6 code?

We want to use that to ensure that non-core applications (i.e., not from Microsoft) do not have VB6 code, controls, etc.  

Microsoft applications are good at working with VB6 code but third party ones are especially notorious for shipping and using 5+ year old obsolete VB6 controls.

We audit new applciations in a VM to see what files they land and what registry changes they make.  Many third party speciality applications haven't had all of their dlls updated for 5+ years.  The classic example are applications that use old 16 bit installation programs.

# Fergal Reilly said on September 23, 2009 10:04 AM:

Feel dirty for asking, but is there a similar MSDN "Migration Centre" for (gasp!) VB3?

# Beth Massi said on October 2, 2009 2:53 PM:

Hi Greg,

I'm not actually sure. Have you tried asking in the VB6 newsgroups?

# Beth Massi said on October 2, 2009 2:55 PM:

Hi Fergal Reilly,

LOL. There's no specific center for VB3, but you can still benefit from the P&P guidance, free books, videos and migration resources. The one thing that I don't think will work is the Interop Forms Toolkit since it relies on COM, but there is a lot of other resources on the site you can benefit from.

HTH,

-B

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