BIG can of worms?????

[CliffPhilip]

I think I just opened up a BIG can of worms from some information gained from a variety of these forums. Not counting hundreds of small programs, I have several large programs developed in vb6 over the years. They have been stable for a long time but periodically, they need minor changes and/or additions.

Recently I concluded I will be needing some of the features of VB .net in the relatively near future. Last night I went out and purchased the Visual Basic .net Standard edition and installed it on my system. Then I pulled out one of my bigger programs to "convert" it like the book says.

I won't even guess how many error messages I encountered. Most of them however, are directly related to VB6 and constants. For example:

1. I need to color code a lot of fields for specific use on different forms and use vbBlue, vbYellow, vbWhite, etc.

2. I use many custom procedures to display/print information on the screen and to the printer. Therefore, to save lines of code, I declare a global variable (prnWhere) that I send to all print routines. The print routine then selects the printer.scalemode such as vbTwips or vbCharacters.

3. And others.

None of these converted.

At this point, I have decided NOT to convert most of the programs until such time as it is required. However, the one that just threw up on me is the primary reason I bought VB .net int the first place.

Any advice?

[Edneeis]

I think the best advise is to just suck it up and evolve. It'll only hurt at first then it'll be sweeter than you imagine.

What I mean is VB.NET is not VB7. It's basically a whole new language but it is a better language. Since you probably didn't anticipate having to port your VB6 application to a different language it probably wasn't designed according (none of mine were either). So you will be doing some rewriting but this is the price of those 'new features' of .NET.

We'll help but you'll need to post specific code that you think is broken.

PS I'd ditch the global variable bit in favor of scalablity.