Migrating to Visual Basic

[Charles Tam]

I would like to migrate our MS Access applications (including Forms/Code
Modules) to MS Visual Basic 6. What are my options? What are your
experiences?

 

[mike]

if you can, do it in .net (vb.net or c#)... vb6 is no longer supported
by microsoft...

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

Tony Toews lists a number of products that purport to be able to do the
conversion at http://www.granite.ab.ca/access/accesstovb.htm. However, the
general consensus is that they do an incomplete job at best.

There are strictly too many differences between the controls available for
forms in Access and those in VB. In general, I think you're going to be
better off rebuilding the application. You may be able to salvage much of
the code (since VBA and VB are virtually identical), but that's probably
about it.

 

[Tony Toews]

I would like to migrate our MS Access applications (including Forms/Code
Modules) to MS Visual Basic 6. What are my options? What are your
experiences?

Why? Some folks have stated an experienced VB6 dev will take about
50% longer for the same app as Access.

Tony
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