VB .NET and VB 6.0

[MichaelC2468]

I graduated with a degree in computer programming a year and a half ago. I learned VB 6.0 in school, as VB .NET was not offered. I have been thinking of switching to VB .NET, but I have a few questions concerning the .NET framework and VB 6.0. Can you run both development environments on the same pc without any conflicts? Are there any major issues when deploying applications? How difficult is it to migrate existing VB apps utilizing ADO to the .NET framework?

As always, thanks in advance.

Michael

[Edneeis]

There are no conflicts running both on the same computer. Converting applications from VB6 to .NET can be a long process. There is an upgrade wizard but it isn't very efficient and another asspect is that it merely translates the vb6 code to work in .net but doesn't use any of the advantages that .net offers. So really I would suggest a rewrite on most applications. As far as ADO, now there is ADO.NET which is a bit different, there aren't any recordsets there are datasets which are memory cached data stores. You can still use COM objects in .NET so you could still use the old ADO but ADO.NET is better (I think) and is more focused on the disconnected recordset concept. Deployment is easy, ONCE the framework is on the target computer. .NET also has a packaging asspect which is far better than the old P&D Wizard.