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To: Boundless
"So does VB.NET run older VB.6 code, unmodified?"

No. VB.Net is not backwards compatible. There are tricks to migrate some 60% of VB 6 code to VB.Net, but it's error-prone and unreliable.

29 posted on 03/13/2005 6:42:21 PM PST by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Southack

>> "So does VB.NET run older VB.6 code, unmodified?"

> No. VB.Net is not backwards compatible. There are
> tricks to migrate some 60% of VB 6 code to VB.Net,
> but it's error-prone and unreliable.

Sounds like the enterprises using VB6 have a bigger
beef with MS than the VB programmers do.


39 posted on 03/13/2005 7:20:04 PM PST by Boundless
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