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Migrating Visual Basic 6 ASP Web Applications

As is true with VB6 Windows applications, you have options when it comes to migrating VB6 ASP Web applications to ASP.NET. The first thing to point out is that ASP and ASP.NET applications can coexist. Thus it is worthwhile to evaluate whether to migrate at all. Microsoft also recommends reading “Migrating Your ASP Applications to ASP.NET” and “Migrating to ASP.NET: Key Considerations” before you migrate. Both of these articles are available at http://msdn.microsoft.com.

To get you started, here's an overview of the steps that will help you migrate to ASP.NET.

1.	Start Visual Studio .NET.
2.	Open an existing ASP application or add an existing ASP application to the opened solution.
3.	Select File|Add ...