Quote Originally Posted by Jenner View Post
Heck, I've known programmers and IT departments to "loose" their VB6 install disks just so they can force the corporate wonks to agree to the conversion of legacy applications.
I wasn't leaving it up to chance: Somebody stole the whole computer and all the source code. There's more to that story, but it makes it uninteresting. Suffice it to say that I used that as an excuse not to deal with those legacy programs again.

You should be safe maintaining existing programs until:

1) The IDE or program no longer runs: This has been threatened repeatedly, but as of Windows 7, it has not happened, nor is it likely to in the near future.
2) You become familiar with .NET, at which point you won't want to open the VB6 IDE ever again. I loved that language, yet I would never willingly go back to it.