Upgrade for Visual Basic 6.0 Users (How Do I in Visual Basic Express)

This page provides links to help on getting started with Visual Basic 2008 for developers who have previous experience with Visual Basic 6.0. To view other categories of popular tasks covered in Help, see How Do I in Visual Basic Express.

Getting Started in Visual Basic Express

Visual Basic Express includes tools for upgrading your Visual Basic 6.0 program. This includes an Upgrade Wizard.

• Help for Visual Basic 6.0 Users
  Describes changes to various Visual Basic 6.0 features.

• What's New for Visual Basic 6.0 Users
  Describes new and improved language features—such as inheritance, interfaces, overriding, shared members, and overloading. Also describes changes to the IDE and the Forms package.

• Walkthrough: Upgrading a Visual Basic 6.0 Application to the Current Version of Visual Basic
  Shows how to upgrade a Visual Basic 6.0 graphics sample application to Visual Basic 2008. In addition to illustrating the upgrading process, this walkthrough describes the differences in graphics architectures between Visual Basic 6.0 and Visual Basic 2008.

• Preparing a Visual Basic 6.0 Application for Upgrading
  Describes how you can optimize an upgrade with just a bit of preparation.

  By following the recommendations in this topic, you can minimize or, in some cases, eliminate having to make changes after you upgrade your project to Visual Basic 2008.

• Things to Consider Before Upgrading
  Describes areas where compatibility with earlier versions is faulty.

• Development with My
  Describes a Visual Basic feature designed to provide access to information and default object instances that are related to the application and its run-time environment.

Upgrade a Visual Basic 6.0 Application

• Working with Both Visual Basic 6.0 and the Current Version of Visual Basic
  Describes changes to various Visual Basic 6.0 features.

• How to: Upgrade a Project with the Visual Basic Upgrade Wizard
  Explains how to upgrade your Visual Basic 6.0 project to Visual Basic 2008.

• Language Recommendations for Upgrading
  Lists recommendations for preparing an application for upgrade and for developing Visual Basic 6.0 applications that might later be upgraded.

Work with Data

• Data Access for Visual Basic 6.0 Users
  Describes some differences, both conceptually and with regard to tasks, between ADO and ADO.NET.

• Comparison of ADO.NET and ADO
  Explains ADO.NET for those familiar with ADO.

MSDN Library for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Express Editions—Learn the .NET Framework

The following topics in the Library are designed to help you learn about the .NET Framework. To use these links, you have to have the MSDN Library for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Express Editions installed, or have access to MSDN Online library.

• Comparison of ADO.NET and ADO
  Explains ADO.NET for developers who are familiar with ADO.

• Visual Basic and the .NET Framework
  Provides links to topics that explain how Visual Basic and the .NET Framework work together.

• COM Interop
  Describes COM Interop in the context of Visual Basic applications.

• .NET Development on MSDN Online
  Provides links to downloads, articles, newsgroups, user groups, and other resources.

• Additional Resources for Visual Basic Programmers
  Provides information about the various Microsoft and third-party sites for Visual Basic.

Other Resources

The following Web sites are excellent resources for finding more information, seeing what other Express users are doing, and remaining a part of the Visual Basic Express community as it grows.

• Visual Basic Developer Center
  Central location for information about Visual Basic. Includes case studies, new tools, and other downloads.

• Beginner Developer Learning Center
  Central location for learning materials for the beginner developer. Includes video tutorials, articles, the How-To Reference Library, and Kid's Corner.

• Coding4Fun
  Includes lots of articles and coding tips for the Visual Basic Express developer.

• Visual Basic 6.0 Resource Center
  Provides extra help for developers who want to upgrade Visual Basic 6.0 applications.

See Also

Concepts

How Do I in Visual Basic Express