VB6 and VS2005

[VBFnewcomer]

Hai Everybody,
Can somebody throw some light if it is possible to have both VB6 and VS2005 installed in the same drive and develop applications without any hitch. Also pls state if there are things which should be taken care of .
Thanx

[brucevde]

I have VB6, VS 2003, VB 2005 Express, VWD 2005 Express, SQL Server 2000, SQL Server 2005 Express and more. No problems at all...

[VBFnewcomer]

You mean there should be no clash of files/dlls of diff versions of Visual studio

[RobDog888]

No, not at all. They are all separate programs. Thisnk of it like having PhotoShop, Premier, Flash, and Illustrator programs on your system. They all Adobe programs for graphics but they all are independant of each other.

VS 6, VS 2002, VS 2003, VS 2005, VS 2008 are all independant of each other. As long as you do like you do when you install any other program and install it to its own separate Program Files directory you will be fine.

[VBFnewcomer]

Thankz brucevde & Robdog888 now I will install VS2005 Also can somebody suggest a good tutorial which shows how to code in VS2005 (mainly VB part) from the scratch. I understand the coding techniques in VB6 & VS2005 are quite different.

[Hack]

Moved to General Developer

At one time I had VB6, VS 2003 and VS 2005 all installed and running on the same machine with out a problem (I eventually uninstalled VS 2003 'cause I wasn't doing anything with it.)

I understand the coding techniques in VB6 & VS2005 are quite different.

The understatement of the day!

As far as tutorial goes, there is about a bajillion sites dedicated to coding in .NET - If you Google "VB.NET Tutorial", you will get all kinds of returns. Pretty much take your pick.

When I finally got going with .NET, I bought a book and starting living in the .NET section of this site.

[Shaggy Hiker]

They are both different and not different. The list of key words is about the same, the simple data types are about the same, and there are a few other similarities. I would think that if you have a background in VB6 you could write a simple program in 2005 that would run without much difficulty.....but going beyond the simple would be where it got tricky.

Many people start a new language with something like the "Hello World" program. If you know VB6, you could write that in 2005 without any tutorial, so you don't really want a tutorial that will tell you how to do that. But what tutorial goes well beyond that? If you are doing any relatively non-trivial program, you would need a tutorial specific to that, or one general enough to cover the universe in broad strokes. I prefer the latter option, and the strokes I think are most significant to .NET are OO. If you understand Object Oriented design in addition to VB6 syntax and key words, then you are in pretty good shape. If you don't understand OO design, then that is where you should start, because that is the biggest general difference.

[KiwiDexter]

Moved to General Developer

At one time I had VB6, VS 2003 and VS 2005 all installed and running on the same machine with out a problem (I eventually uninstalled VS 2003 'cause I wasn't doing anything with it.)The understatement of the day!

As far as tutorial goes, there is about a bajillion sites dedicated to coding in .NET - If you Google "VB.NET Tutorial", you will get all kinds of returns. Pretty much take your pick.

When I finally got going with .NET, I bought a book and starting living in the .NET section of this site.

Care to name the book Being forced into one of those MCSD thingies and am going to need all the help I can get. Assuming of course the book in question was on .net and not ferret wrangling.

Quick question, rather than raising a new thread. Am I correct in assuming ASP.NET 2.0 uses the full vb.net language? Read that this morning and thought huh???? Am used to ASP 3.0, which of course uses the cut down vbscript stuff.

[Shaggy Hiker]

It's ferret LEGGING, not ferret wrangling (look it up if you don't know that one).

Buying books in programming is always a dicey proposition. However, if you are going for the MCSD, you might look at your favorite bookstore for MCSD related books. Last time I looked there were about two major lines of them, but that was about seven years ago.

[KiwiDexter]

It's ferret LEGGING, not ferret wrangling (look it up if you don't know that one).

Buying books in programming is always a dicey proposition. However, if you are going for the MCSD, you might look at your favorite bookstore for MCSD related books. Last time I looked there were about two major lines of them, but that was about seven years ago.

Picked up a book on asp.net yesterday, that had the added advantage of an installer for all the express stuff. Some huge books on the actual exams (you'ld need a tow truck to get one home), and some small ones. Figure I'll roll through a couple of general .net books before seeing what's between the covers of the exam books.

Really really don't want to know what Hack is doing legging a ferret

[RobDog888]

Keep in mind that an MCSD cert is going to be on its way out soon. The 2005 certs are all redone. I say this knowing that you are asking about 2005 but the last MCSD certs were for 2003 and for 2005 you now have MCTS and MCPD.

[Hack]

Care to name the book

Murach's VB.NET database programming with ADO.NET

[VBFnewcomer]

Shaggy

If you don't understand OO design, then that is where you should start, because that is the biggest general difference.

Though I do understand OOPS I am not aware of its implementation in VB. So can you suggest some good tutorial site/ebook

[Hack]

http://www.developer.com/net/vb/article.php/1578341

http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet...25/oop_vb.html

http://codebetter.com/blogs/eric.wis.../14/50919.aspx

[RobDog888]

You should also go over the tutorials on the MS site.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/ex...b/easytolearn/
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vb/learning/