I just uninstalled VB6

[homer13j]

Haven't touched it in at least five years, and only then to look at some legacy code while I rewrote it in .Net.

So admit it. Come clean. You still have VB6 installed, don't you? Why?

[kregg]

I've never bothered having that thing installed since I installed Vista.

Now I primarily use Linux, well... you could say I don't have it installed.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I still have it installed on a secondary computer. No need to remove it, and there is a very slight chance that I will need to review some old programs.

[pcuser]

I just downloaded DOS 6.22 from Technet and installed it on my 486-DX2 (having a seperate co-processor is old school). It's running good but I'm thinking about upgrading to Windows 3.1 so I can start porting my QBasic apps to VB3.

[NeedSomeAnswers]

You still have VB6 installed, don't you? Why?

Only at work, where it is not my choice !

[Siddharth Rout]

Well...

See the last line in my signature

[abhijit]

Haven't touched it in at least five years, and only then to look at some legacy code while I rewrote it in .Net.

So admit it. Come clean. You still have VB6 installed, don't you? Why?

I do have VB6 installed, but not on my home computer.

[techgnome]

'Allo.... My name is TechGnome... and I'm a recovering VB6-er. I've been clean and sober for almost 18 months now.

The closest I get to VB6 these days is here at VBF... 6 machines at home, and not one has VB6 installed... I don't even have the VB6 install files on my network.

-tg

[CVMichael]

Still have it, still using it almost regularly.

At home i'm mostly using VB6, at work I use VB.NET

[Hack]

I have it at home and at work and use on a daily basis.

I will continue to do so until such time as the folks that sign my paycheck indicate I no longer need to.

I'm not sure what it is like in your world, but in my world I don't get to dictate what programming language I use.

The aforementioned check signers get to do that.

[wossname]

I just downloaded DOS 6.22 from Technet and installed it on my 486-DX2 (having a seperate co-processor is old school). It's running good but I'm thinking about upgrading to Windows 3.1 so I can start porting my QBasic apps to VB3.

You seem to have your finger on the pulse of modern technology. You should apply for moderatorship.

[DataMiser]

Sorry to revive an old thread but it was linked to in another current post so I thought I would chime in

Haven't touched it in at least five years, and only then to look at some legacy code while I rewrote it in .Net.

So admit it. Come clean. You still have VB6 installed, don't you? Why?

Yes, I do have VB6 installed and on more than one system.
A few reasons
1: I have several projects that were written in VB5 and VB6 that I need to maintain and it does not make sense to re write them in .Net
2: I have became so comfortable with the language that I can hammer out simple projects very quickly in it.
3: I often use it for small personal stuff, updating a db or manipulating text files and such.

I will likely have it on my system until such a time that I can no longer get it to work though I will be using it less and less over time.

I also have VBDos, VB3, EVB3, VB2003, 2005,2008,2010 and 2012 installed some in VMs others on physical PCs as well as a few languages and addons that most here have likely never heard of

[Merrion]

I got a new laptop 2 years ago and never bothered to install it - so all the VB6 code to EventVB, MCLHotkey and all that other stuff is officially gone forever.

[RobDog888]

I have it installed on my home computer but havent opened it in a couple years easyly.
Actually havent programmed at home for a while now as balancing work/life more evenly. No more marathon programming sessions over the weekend or weeknights etc

[sapator]

Only used it in college, never installed it on any of my computers and it figures as i was the anti-Windows type of guy (still am).
However i had Qbasic all over the place

[dee-u]

Actually havent programmed at home for a while now as balancing work/life more evenly. No more marathon programming sessions over the weekend or weeknights etc

More of marathon car detailing now? ;-)

[dclamp]

Never used VB6... Still have VB5 disk in my room.

[sapator]

So who will start the I just uninstalled Windows thread? It won't be me even if i ever Linuxsize because i wouldn't want the 50 mail responses in my mailbox.
I would also love to start an I Hate Windows thread with nothing other than a "bump" on the first post.
Pascal rulez!!!! Will never uninstall it from my 8088 PC found in the storage right now.

[RobDog888]

More of marathon car detailing now? ;-)

Naw more of busy life working and making carbon for my side business but also my two builds. The cobra may be started up thise= week and the shelby is going into the fab shop for major suspension mods

[techgnome]

Wish I had the time/money/skills to do something like that. I'd like to restore a '53 Ford F100, add in some modern creature comforts.

-tg

[Shaggy Hiker]

Will never uninstall it from my 8088 PC found in the storage right now.

Does that count as an upgrade over there?

Or is it too soon to make jokes about the Grecian economy?

[RobDog888]

Wish I had the time/money/skills to do something like that. I'd like to restore a '53 Ford F100, add in some modern creature comforts.

-tg

I wish I had more time as I have to lose sleep to make more out of my days. Getting about 6 hours sleep max right now.

I dont have all the needed tools and skills so I sent the cobra off to the shop to have the engine rebuilt. Doing a fully forged engine with a massive supercharger on it. Tax refund and bonus from work are gone and so is my savings lol

The Shelby is going into the other shop for custom suspension work. I have about 4-5 months of work to do on it and time is running out to be done before SEMA.

Glad to see you like Fords lol. Did you see that one some shop did for SEMA last year? Shelby front end integrated to the F100 I think it was

[sapator]

Does that count as an upgrade over there?

Or is it too soon to make jokes about the Grecian economy?

I only wish they build computers as firm as they did back then. The little bastard still works like a charm.

[Fatina]

Haven't touched it in at least five years, and only then to look at some legacy code while I rewrote it in .Net.

So admit it. Come clean. You still have VB6 installed, don't you? Why?

YES ! both I and a few hundred thousand other programmers !

[RobDog888]

Im sure there are lots of programmers still writing code in "legacy" languages that are older than VB6. MS isnt bringing any of those back either so doubtful they will with VB6.

[Fatina]

Im sure there are lots of programmers still writing code in "legacy" languages that are older than VB6. MS isnt bringing any of those back either so doubtful they will with VB6.

VB6 has the largest amount of source code on the internet, the density of VB6 open source projects that appears online daily, is very high compared to other languages. Let's hope Microsoft has the wisdom to bring a new version of VB6.

[homer13j]

VB6 has the largest amount of source code on the internet, the density of VB6 open source projects that appears online daily, is very high compared to other languages.

So what? The vast majority of the internet is porn. What does that say?

[RobDog888]

So what? The vast majority of the internet is porn. What does that say?

It means MS pr0n version 6.9 is eminent!

[DataMiser]

VB6 has the largest amount of source code on the internet,

I wonder why you would think that? I have no idea how one would even begin to calculate how much of each type of code is on the internet though I am sure there is more HTML than anything else. I do know that there is a lot of code on the internet in all kinds of languages, a lot of that is VB related but not VB6 specifically. ASP, VBScript, VBA, VB 3,4,5 and of course tons of VB.Net as well as C/C++, Java, Java Script, CGI, Perl, PHP, SQL and the list goes on and on.

I know of no way to determine how much of any of these is online but there is a lot of all of them, just depends on where you look.

Interesting enough I did a quick google search for VB6 source code and got 1.7 million matches. C Source code returned 1.5 million matches. VB.Net Source Code returned 5.9 million matches and Java source code returned 74.5 million matches

[SJWhiteley]

I installed VB6 a year or so, ago, as I had it kicking around as I was sorting through boxes of junk.

Christ it's horrible. Yes, the interface is clean - spartan, even - but it just does not help you write a program at all. You just can't 'do' anything with it out of the box.

These VB6 arguments are like a bunch of dweebs arguing over the best 'Magic' card combo, and getting into a slapping match.

[DataMiser]

Funny having coded in some of the original forms of Basic for quite a while before VB5 was released I could not believe how much easier it was to do almost everything in VB, so much was done for you, a WYSIWYG interface, intellisense, search and replace functions, online help, lots of available controls and references that make short work of many tasks. I felt like I was cheating when I first started writing in VB5. VB6 of course is very much like VB5 with a few additions.

btw you can do almost anything with it out of the box.

[Nightwalker83]

Well...

See the last line in my signature

This line?

(XP+Office 2003+VB6), (VISTA+Office 2007+VS2008), (Win8+Office 2010+VS2012) || Mac Book Pro (10.6.8) with Office 2011

Why don't you upgrade the XP machine!

[Nightwalker83]

So admit it. Come clean. You still have VB6 installed, don't you? Why?

I'm too lazy to convert my legacy to vb.net.

[RobDog888]

On my new system Im building it will not be cluttered up with VB6 at all. I dont need any legacy source code as if the need ever comes up it will be the reason for re-writing it better and more optimized in C# or whatever language is best suited for the need

[arunb]

I have it installed in a VirtualBox installation of windows..I haven't used it in several years now. I keep it just in case some customer demands a Windows based application, in fact I have completely stopped developing on Windows..its only Ubuntu now...

[Gruff]

I'm reporting all you uninstallers to the VB6 police.

I still have it on an unplugged XP box along with forty or so corporate legacy apps.
I am slowly converting them to VB.NET. I gotta admit though that the inertia to do so is like wading through water. Honestly I don't feel like making the effort. I hope they just die quietly.

[Shaggy Hiker]

That's my plan for my legacy apps, too.

[Gruff]

Honestly I don't feel like making the effort. I hope they just die quietly.

The apps. Not the people at corporate.