Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Migration Resource Center

Microsoft’s Commitment to VB 6.0 Customers- Microsoft is committed to helping Visual Basic 6.0 customers upgrade to .NET and preserve existing assets. Visual Studio shipped a Visual Basic 6.0 project migration wizard through 2008 in all Visual Studio SKUs. While Microsoft no longer ships the migration wizard, our partners are offering free migration tools and solutions. Here are more resources to help answer questions on how to migrate from Visual Basic 6.0 to Visual Basic .NET and Visual Studio 2010.

Migration Resources

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Prepare The first step in a phased migration to .NET is to assess which upgrade strategy is right for you in order to come up with a migration plan. Patterns & Practices Guidance: Upgrading Visual Basic 6 Applications to Visual Basic .NET Visual Basic 6.0 to Visual Basic .NET Upgrade Assessment Tool Code Advisor for Visual Basic 6.0 Essential Training Videos for Visual Basic 6 Developers Click the tab on the left for information on the next step: Migrate

More Resources

Guidance

• VB6 Upgrade Guidance from Patterns and Practices
  Provides proven practices to reach functional equivalence while upgrading Visual Basic 6 to Visual Basic .NET.
• Upgrading Microsoft Visual Basic 6 to Microsoft Visual Basic.NET
  This free book is the complete technical guide to upgrading Visual Basic 6 applications to Visual Basic .NET.

Training

• VB6 Essential Training Videos
  Complete series of training videos that give Visual Basic 6 developers the skills to start developing on the .NET platform.
• VB6 Upgrade Assesment Webcast
  This webcast gives the framework to develop the right strategy to take advantage of the .NET Framework.

Tools for Code Preparation

• Partner Tools & Solutions
  Leverage these free tools and solutions from our partners to assist you with a more complete migration from Visual Basic 6 to .NET.
• Code Advisor for Visual Basic 6.0
  Add-in used to ensure that code meets predetermined coding standards and best practices developed by Microsoft.
• Visual Basic 6.0 to Visual Basic .NET Upgrade Assessment Tool
  Analyze your Visual Basic 6.0 projects to determine what issues you will need to address to be able to upgrade.

Tools for Full and Phased Migration

• Partner Tools & Solutions
  Leverage these free tools and solutions from our partner to assist you with a more complete migration from Visual Basic 6 to .NET.
• Interop Forms Toolkit
  Used to enable phased migration, this free add-in for Visual Studio simplifies the process of displaying .NET forms and controls in a Visual Basic 6 application.
• Visual Basic Power Packs
  Contains a set of controls to use in .NET forms that are familiar to Visual Basic 6 developers. It includes a DataRepeater control, Line and Shape controls, a PrintForm component, and a Printer Compatibility.