Which program should I use now: VB6 Enterprise/Professional ? Visual Basic Net ??

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What do you need to install it *for*?

VB6 and VB.NET are so different you may as well be asking whether you should install VB6 or Java.

If you want to work on your programs you made in VB6, you need VB6. VB.NET is an entirely different language and you'd be rewriting from scratch. Or one alternative, twinBASIC. It's a proper backwards-compatible successor; only caveats are it's in beta still so there's some bugs and it's still missing MDI form support, the Printer object, and some App object and Form/control properties/methods; but it runs all my VB6 apps including complex .ctls.

Or, do you want to learn a new language? Then VB.NET. Otherwise VB6/twinBASIC.

ETA: For installing it, I've had luck with creating a 0-byte msjava.dll in C:\Windows, running setup as administrator, then with the custom setup options, don't install Interdev or FoxPro at all, and from 'Data Access', uncheck 'ADO, RDS, and OLE DB providers', and under 'Enterprise tools', uncheck Visual Studio Analyzer.


Other people swear by VS6Installer; the author passed away so we've been sharing it for free.