New Microsoft tool brings .net to VB6

If you have applications written in Visual Basic 6 (VB6) it would force you to rewrite the entire thing to bring it into Visual Basic.net. Have no fear, an add-in tool from Microsoft is here. Microsoft's Interop Forms Toolkit 1.0 (free download) is an add-in for VB6 that will bring .net WinForms to your VB6 application. Microsoft's goal here was to help developers stuck between both worlds to develop code and focus on business needs in their VB6 apps while slowly moving the application to the new world of Visual Basic.net without rewriting everything from scratch. This allows you to include many newer ideas into your older apps easily, such as RSS, web services, and newer multimedia components.

Tags: .net, COM, framework, Microsoft, VB6, Visual Basic, VisualBasic, WinForms