Quote Originally Posted by RipVoidWinkle View Post
Last year, I migrated some old VB6 projects to VS2017.
I had the old VS versions all still installed on my Win7 PC.

1) Open in VB6.
Run project to make sure everything works and is updated.

2) Open that project in VB Express 2008. (Skipped over VS2005)
Migrate VB6 project.

3) Open the VS2008 project in VS2013. (Skipped over VS2010)
This VS2013 project is compatible with VS2015 & VS2017
He forgot to say that these projects are all slight variations of a "Hello World" project.

Also, the primary reason I didn't initially "update" my primary project to net was because of compatibility issues. However, having recently explored recent versions of net VS, it just seems that actual development in the net VS IDE would be much more cumbersome. So, I've come to believe that the VB6 IDE is just an absolutely superior IDE, and that it's fortuitous that I didn't originally force an "update". I just routinely get 3 or 4 executions of the VB6 IDE opened, trying out some concepts in slightly different forms. This is all lightening fast in VB6. I can't even imagine doing that in a recent version of the net VS IDE.