December 2001
Intermediate to advanced
360 pages
9h 6m
English
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Helping Your VB6 Applications Upgrade
There are a number of things you can do in your VB6 application to make the upgrade easier. This is not a comprehensive list, but it covers some of the most important aspects.
Note that this chapter refers to upgrading VB6 projects—what about VB3, VB4, and VB5 projects? Although the upgrade tool recognizes the format of VB5 and VB6 project types, some VB5 ActiveX references have problems after they are upgraded. For this reason, it's better to upgrade your VB5 applications to VB6—and upgrade the controls to VB6 controls—before upgrading the application to VB .NET. The upgrade tool cannot upgrade projects saved in VB4 and earlier.
Do Not Use Late Binding
As you saw earlier in the chapter, late binding can ...