VB 2005 dll in VB 6.0

[IVK]

Hello,
I am looking to develop a project in VB which must be integrated with
VB 6.0 which is already existing. If I develop the new project in VB
2005 will I be able to add the DLL's of VB 2005 project in VB 6.0
project.

If this is not possible can anyone help me out in suggesting a
development tool of VB 6.0 which I can download it from internet.

Cheers
IVK

 

[Guest]

Hello,
I am looking to develop a project in VB which must be integrated with
VB 6.0 which is already existing. If I develop the new project in VB
2005 will I be able to add the DLL's of VB 2005 project in VB 6.0
project.

No, .NET DLLs cannot be natively used in VB 6.0. But you can expose your
..NET DLLs as COM objects which can be loaded in VB 6.0.

If this is not possible can anyone help me out in suggesting a
development tool of VB 6.0 which I can download it from internet.

You could use Visual Studios 6.0 for VB 6.0. Other than that, I'm not aware
of any free VB 6.0 editors. You can try the VB6 newsgroups, the people
there are still using VB6 so they'll be more familar with the platform.

In anycase, any possibility of upgrading the VB6 project to .NET? AFAIK VB6
isn't supported by MS anymore either :-(