upgrade from VB 6.5 to .net?

[Lloyd Spencer]

Hi, apologies in advance for what may be a newbie question. I have the
following situation:

I have an API I want to use from Excel that requires the .net framework. I
have Vista / Excel with VB 6.5. Is there some way to upgrade VB 6.5 to VB
..net so that I can use the API from visual basic in Excel, without developing
a whole application in Visual Studio somehow?

Thanks!

 

[Family Tree Mike]

You should try downloading VB.Net 2008 Express. It is free and probably
sufficient for what you are doing. You may get it at
http://www.microsoft.com/express/vb/

As to VB 6.5, I have no idea what this is. I know VB 6.0, which predates VB
..net 2003, 2005 and 2008. VB .Net is "very" different from VB 6.0, if that
is what you had.

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

You should try downloading VB.Net 2008 Express. It is free and probably
sufficient for what you are doing. You may get it at
http://www.microsoft.com/express/vb/

As to VB 6.5, I have no idea what this is.

That's IIRC the VBA version shipping with Office 2007. Basically it's the
same as the previous version of VBA.

 

[Family Tree Mike]

Thanks, I didn't know about that update.

That's IIRC the VBA version shipping with Office 2007. Basically it's the
same as the previous version of VBA.