Can VB6 and VB.Net reside in the same machine?

Right now there is a plan in our company to move from VB6 to VB.Net and I am not sure if it is safe to make Visual Studio 6.0 and Visual Studio .Net reside in the same machine.

I want to still continue using VB6 from Visual Studio 6 while I slowly migrate to .Net which is the reason why I would like them to reside in the same machine.

Thank you so much for all the advise you can give.  

Matt

hello,

based on what i've experienced, i think there's no problem running both.. right now am trying out vb.net as i also plan to migrate from the old one.

hope this would help a little...

andrew

Hi,
I'm running VB6 and .NET 2003 and .NET 2005 on the same box. No probs, although the help in my VB6 had to be reinstalled after .net.
Regards,
Kieron


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Build it better, faster, quicker, easier.. then fix it (non-offical MS mission statement)

Hi,
Just to make you feel really comfortable about it, just like Kieron I am also running VB6, .NET 2003, and .NET 2005 on one machine. No problems at all.


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multi-tasking - the ability to hang more than one app. at the same time.

Thank you all for giving me valuable information.

For quite sometime now I have shied away from .Net because I was afraid it might break some things in my otherwise "clear blue sky" world.

Even my boss does not understand me (and I have
been too ashamed to tell him the reason)

Because of your help I think I am now more confident
-- and willing to invest/embrace the new technology.

Thanks again,
Matt

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matt_1ca wrote:
Can VB6 and VB.Net reside in the same machine?

Right now there is a plan in our company to move from VB6 to VB.Net and I am not sure if it is safe to make Visual Studio 6.0 and Visual Studio .Net reside in the same machine.

I want to still continue using VB6 from Visual Studio 6 while I slowly migrate to .Net which is the reason why I would like them to reside in the same machine.

Thank you so much for all the advise you can give.  

Matt

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Oh yes,
a minor irritation.. you may need to re-associated your IIS projects (*.SLN) to the corrrect verions of MSDEV. I have associated particular versions of MSDEV with all .SLN files, so they are listed in the right-click menu.
Good luck,
Kieron


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Build it better, faster, quicker, easier.. then fix it (non-offical MS mission statement)

Thanks a bundle, I will see to it that I do those things.  

Gratefully,
Matt

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stickleprojects wrote:
Oh yes,
a minor irritation.. you may need to re-associated your IIS projects (*.SLN) to the corrrect verions of MSDEV. I have associated particular versions of MSDEV with all .SLN files, so they are listed in the right-click menu.
Good luck,
Kieron

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Just to add, no problem with having them noth on one OS, altough minor problems could occur if you decide to uninstall one later... but they can be fixed with not much difficulty...

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