I'll be working on some old code this summer, written in VB6 by some guy in Oslo. The problem is: What tools should I use?



It seems like there are no good free environments on the net (this is Microsoft after all). I should be able to persuade my boss to buy me one, though, but which? Visual Studio 6.0 is very old, but the code was written in this IDE and might not be compatible with newer versions. What do you professionals out there think?

Any help will be greatly appreciated as I'll have to make a decision fast...

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I'm not a VB guy, but can't you use the 2008 express edition?

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I'd love to, but as far as I know it doesn't support VB6 code at all... Have I misunderstood something?

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If you want to program in VB 6 then Visual Studio 6 is what you need.

If you are quite happy to program in a newer version then get VB.NET 2008 Express Edition, when you try to open your VB6 program it will convert it to VB.NET 2008, you then have to continue coding in 2008. (Should it not convert everything you will have to make a few fixes)

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I'm not familiar with VB.NET, unfortunately... So i'll have to program in VB.NORMAL, if you see...

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Just find yourself a copy of Visual Studio 6 in that case, VB.NET is basically the same but with a lot more features and some things slightly different, it's easy to convert from VB6 to .NET

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