why does the microsoft doesnt support vb6 anymore?

[Condomx]

1.Why does the microsoft doesnt support vb6 anymore?..

2.Is Visual Basic 6.0 same as Visual Basic 2006?

3.Which is better VB6 OR VB 2008?

[akhileshbc]

1.Why does the microsoft doesnt support vb6 anymore?..

See this link: http://www.itwriting.com/frozenvb6.php

2.Is Visual Basic 6.0 same as Visual Basic 2006?

VB2006 is .Net version.... Advanced version of VB6....

3.Which is better VB6 OR VB 2008?

VB2008 is better as compared to VB6...

[ThEiMp]

VB6 hasn't been written out of the run-time files for the later versions of Windows, like Windows Vista and 7.00. They all have the nesscessary run-time files to run and build VB6 programs in the IDE and other things like that.

Also VB6 is a very strong langague, but VB 2006 .NET is much better in every way. But I still like to use VB6. Because I have learnt that and then I don't wish to use anything else.

[dilettante]

VB6 is just very, very old now. Microsoft made a decision to stop continuing to produce new versions in this series of Basic compilers (that went back to VB5, VB4, VB3, ... all the way back to MS-DOS Basic compilers and interpreters). The product family stopped at VB6.

Instead of VB7, Microsoft produced a thing called VB.Net that is pretty much an unrelated product. They made a decision to call this VB7 even though it was a different thing.

I have no idea where you're finding some "VB 2006" at. The versions of VB.Net went like:

1. VB.Net 2002 (VB7)
2. VB.Net 2003 (VB7.1)
3. VB.Net 2005 (VB8)
4. VB.Net 2008 (VB9)
5. VB.Net 2010 also called VBx (VB10) - not yet released

By rights we ought to be using a real VB8 or VB9 now, and maybe looking forward to a VB10 soon. But Microsoft took a turn after being successfully sued by Sun over Visual J++, a proprietary version of Java. They huddled with their lawyers and created a legally-defensible proprietary language based on Java concepts and called it C#. This new team expanded and absorbed the VB development efforts to create the VB.Net product line based on the underpinnings of C#, called .Net.

[si_the_geek]

As it hasn't been mentioned yet, I thought I'd point out that VB6 was released in 1998, which is a lifetime ago in the computer industry.

It is hardly surprising that it is no longer supported after all that time - even Windows XP and Office 2003 are near the end of their support.

[Joacim Andersson]

Microsoft still supports the VB6 runtime, they are still included in Windows 7. What they don't support anymore is the VB6 development environment, even though that still runs just fine on Windows 7.

[Condomx]

aw...TY so sad about this..but i cant help it...anyway i wish i could learn vb.net as they say that it is better than vb6 and of course a better programming training for the better learning...

[isnoend07]

You may want to consider software not written by Microsoft, Like real basic, or delphi. Microsoft bailed on vb6 and could do the same with vb.net. If my vb6 apps will no longer work I am going a different route.

[ThEiMp]

Try using Mircosoft QuickBASIC v4.5 Borland C++ v4.5 or Borland Turbo Pascal v7.0. They write DOS and Windows Apps and Windows DLLs as well. But they are acentually a 8-Bit DOS programming langague. But I hope that they are able to make a 32-Bit Windows/DOS programming langague of it, as well!!

[dilettante]

I find NS Basic/Desktop less goofy than using REALbasic myself.

[newprogram]

If your new you should learn VS2008 , I went from vb6 to VS2008 pretty easy but still uses vb6 a lot "I love IT!!" it like having a old classic car. And i haven't found anything in net I can't do in vb6 but .net does run a lot smother.