when to use com

[Guest]

I am basically new to the .net framework but I have experience working with
Visual Basic 6.0. I just started to work in a company where I am the only
programmer.
I am told that I will write new code in Visual Basic.NET and
will keep the old Viusal Basic 6.0 code the way it currently is.
If I need .NET to communicate with the Visual Basic 6.0 programs and/or if
I need the Visual Basic 6.0 programs to communicate with the Visual basic.net
programs I am wondering how I would do that?
Would I use COM, or DCOM?
Would I have vb 6.0 communicte with vb.NET by using the "Class libraries"
in .NET? I would use class libraries so that I could create DLLs.
Thus would I use COM, DCOM, class libaries, and/or DLLs?
Thus would you let me know what the best way to do this is and what url's I
can use as a reference?

Thanks!

 

[Oleg Ogurok]

You will need to either expose your .NET libraries as COM or call existing
COM (VB6) libraries from .NET This helps a lot.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;817248

-Oleg.