I am just starting out with using the .NET development to do VB development. How are projects developed under the previous version opened with the VB .NET development environment? It seems all I have to build the project with is the .vbp or the .vbw but when I try to open these files in the .NET IDE and it doesn't seem to work at all.

I looked at the About window of my .NET IDE and it seems I have C ++ .NET installed but not VB.  

At work the collection of installation discs I have includes two yellow Visual C++ .net disks and 3 light blue MSDN LIBRARY  disks and a Visual Studio Prerequisite disc.  The box that everything comes in is Microsoft C++ .net standard.  I guess there is a whole other product I need to buy (or have my boss buy)?  Didn't 6.0 include everything -- both C++ and VB?


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Hi,
.NET Development Tools are packaged in much the same way as the Version 6 Tools were. You can buy the whole lot as Visual Studio, or you can buy the individual development languages. What you do need to remember, though, is that .NET introduced 2 brand new languages when it was first launched, VisualBasic.Net and C#.Net (thats C Sharp.Net). C# is based very much on C++, and VB.Net is based on VB6, BUT, neither of them should be considered as being the next Version (7) for those products. Previous Version increases from Microsoft always provided backwards compatibility with previous versions, these are NEW languages, and although much of the code from previous versions MAY work to an extent you really need to re-write the code. Having said that, it is possible to include the VB6 runtime library as a reference in your .NET project and that would then run the VB6 app. But its a bit messy.
To find out about what is available in the .NET Development Environment take a look at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/
For an interesting overview of how to move code from VB6 to .NET see
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnvbpj01/html/gs0601.asp


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