Production vb6 and visual studio 2005 on the same machine

[Guest]

Hello,

I'm developing production software in VB 6 sp5. We are looking to convert
our software to visual studio 2005. Resources are limited and I would like
to install 2005 on the same machine but am concerned about any components
that may be installed in the process that will mess up my vb 6.

Can the two exist independantly on one machine?

Thank you,

Tobin

 

[ljh]

Yes.

The problems that you will have are with upgrading your projects. If they
are more than very simple applications, you are likely looking at complete
rewrites.

 

[Guest]

That's what I've heard. Thank you for your quick response.

 

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Tobin,

It is very often done with VB6 and VBNet 2002/2003 and in these newsgroups
are AFAIK not yet problems reported (as well not for VBNet 2005) except
that VBNet has to be installed after VB6.

Cor

 

[Rob R. Ainscough]

Yes they work fine independantly I have VB6 and VS 2003 and VS 2005 on my PC
with no problems (other than the slew of bugs in VS products).

Conversion from VB6 to VS 2005 is going to be a manual process and there
isn't much translation.