Hello Everyone,

I am a Visual Basic 6 developer. Though for last few years I was not into IT Development line, I started my career in VB6 and its my fav language. I also know a bit of .NET but didnt use it too much.

I have a financial product which a small team of developers made. Its related to stock market and stuff. The product was made in VB.NET 2005.

The primary problem here is that product's coding was not great. Apart from bugs in the application the user interface is also not friendly. The software is not small and due to some limitation in one of the modules used a new one needs to be designed.

I had an earlier version of the same product which was made in VB6. That one is faster and has a better or at least user friendly interface. The reason this one was stopped was because of some bugs and new features which needed to be added so a new version was chosen and a new platform.

Now I need to fix this and was thinking to go back to my VB6 software and fix it a bit and add the new features that was in VB.NET software. But I am confused as to going to a old technology is ok or not. Will it be supported by most OS in the next four years at least. I am not willing to redo everything in .net again and land up with a product that maybe slow but have better UI.

Moreover I want to improve the UI of the software. How can I do that in VB 6. I did some research and most UI tools support .NET.

I know its more of a personal issue but I would be glad if anyone can help me out. Can I get some info on good UI tools (for both VB 6 / VB.NET). Some of the tools out there are pretty expensive and support .net. Or they have so many ocx that its like the software would be distributed with 40 ocx. Seems pretty weird.

Hope to hear from someone and thank you for taking out time and going thru this post.

Cheers,
GR