I have another old project that I am scared of resurrecting that is made up entirely and only out of control arrays! It must be close to the limit too, like a massive spreadsheet, created before I knew that grid controls even existed. One of my first tools created in the late 90s using QB and upgraded through VB versions.

I am scared to open it now as I will be seeing my old coding at its worst. It was the UI to the database I created for my mil. sim. wargaming project. All the data for every tank, vehicle and gun used in Normandy in 1944-45. The data collection was a massive task in itself, nowadays everyone seems to know a lot about tanks and AFVs but then it was an arcane subject and the gathering of the data was a feat, it cost me loads of cash in books!.

I don't even know why I created my own database? Perhaps it was because databases were arcane and unknown to me in those early days, I cannot remember. Were databases easily cheap and available to VB back then or did we have to roll our own?



So, if I am ever going to give these tools a future, it lies in ripping out all those control arrays and converting to VB.NET (or pray for RadBasic/TwinBasic). I would not have abandoned this development at all if VB6 had not been abandoned by MS, more light at the end of the tunnel means old half-finished projects such as these can be resurrected.