Visual Basic - when to switch?
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Support policy for Visual Basic Support Statement for Visual Basic 6.0 | Microsoft Learn[^] Now as I read that it means that although they are not going to be improving VB they do intend, at least now, to make sure it runs until 2035 (presuming same life cycle for Windows 11 as was for Windows 10). But perhaps not beyond that. So people have those VB apps now so when do they really need to start refactoring the entire code base into something else? Start now and avoid the rush? Wait until 2034? Wait until 2037 and when enough customers move onto a different provider because they don't want to run an older unsupported OS?
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Support policy for Visual Basic Support Statement for Visual Basic 6.0 | Microsoft Learn[^] Now as I read that it means that although they are not going to be improving VB they do intend, at least now, to make sure it runs until 2035 (presuming same life cycle for Windows 11 as was for Windows 10). But perhaps not beyond that. So people have those VB apps now so when do they really need to start refactoring the entire code base into something else? Start now and avoid the rush? Wait until 2034? Wait until 2037 and when enough customers move onto a different provider because they don't want to run an older unsupported OS?
Visual Basic - When to Switch? 30 years ago.
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Support policy for Visual Basic Support Statement for Visual Basic 6.0 | Microsoft Learn[^] Now as I read that it means that although they are not going to be improving VB they do intend, at least now, to make sure it runs until 2035 (presuming same life cycle for Windows 11 as was for Windows 10). But perhaps not beyond that. So people have those VB apps now so when do they really need to start refactoring the entire code base into something else? Start now and avoid the rush? Wait until 2034? Wait until 2037 and when enough customers move onto a different provider because they don't want to run an older unsupported OS?
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Visual Basic - When to Switch? 30 years ago.
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Support policy for Visual Basic Support Statement for Visual Basic 6.0 | Microsoft Learn[^] Now as I read that it means that although they are not going to be improving VB they do intend, at least now, to make sure it runs until 2035 (presuming same life cycle for Windows 11 as was for Windows 10). But perhaps not beyond that. So people have those VB apps now so when do they really need to start refactoring the entire code base into something else? Start now and avoid the rush? Wait until 2034? Wait until 2037 and when enough customers move onto a different provider because they don't want to run an older unsupported OS?
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Support policy for Visual Basic Support Statement for Visual Basic 6.0 | Microsoft Learn[^] Now as I read that it means that although they are not going to be improving VB they do intend, at least now, to make sure it runs until 2035 (presuming same life cycle for Windows 11 as was for Windows 10). But perhaps not beyond that. So people have those VB apps now so when do they really need to start refactoring the entire code base into something else? Start now and avoid the rush? Wait until 2034? Wait until 2037 and when enough customers move onto a different provider because they don't want to run an older unsupported OS?
I totally agree with the above "30 years ago"... but an orthogonal take is: that is in one and a half decade. Do you think your prog will be relevant at all in 2037? I would say that rather few 15-year-old programs are relevant today (regardless of what language they were written in), unless they have a billion-head-userbase like Word, Excel and those... But let's say i am wrong, and your prog remains attractive? Then I say Q: When should I switch ? A: When it is the least painful, i.e. ASAP
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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I totally agree with the above "30 years ago"... but an orthogonal take is: that is in one and a half decade. Do you think your prog will be relevant at all in 2037? I would say that rather few 15-year-old programs are relevant today (regardless of what language they were written in), unless they have a billion-head-userbase like Word, Excel and those... But let's say i am wrong, and your prog remains attractive? Then I say Q: When should I switch ? A: When it is the least painful, i.e. ASAP
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
Some Cobol programs have been running since Moses left Egypt.
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Some Cobol programs have been running since Moses left Egypt.
PartsBin an Electronics Part Organizer - An updated version available! JaxCoder.com Latest Article: ARM Tutorial Part 1 Clocks
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Visual Basic - When to Switch? 30 years ago.
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Support policy for Visual Basic Support Statement for Visual Basic 6.0 | Microsoft Learn[^] Now as I read that it means that although they are not going to be improving VB they do intend, at least now, to make sure it runs until 2035 (presuming same life cycle for Windows 11 as was for Windows 10). But perhaps not beyond that. So people have those VB apps now so when do they really need to start refactoring the entire code base into something else? Start now and avoid the rush? Wait until 2034? Wait until 2037 and when enough customers move onto a different provider because they don't want to run an older unsupported OS?
Well, NOW would be a good choice. Oh, and moving to .NET 7 or 8 while you're at it.
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Support policy for Visual Basic Support Statement for Visual Basic 6.0 | Microsoft Learn[^] Now as I read that it means that although they are not going to be improving VB they do intend, at least now, to make sure it runs until 2035 (presuming same life cycle for Windows 11 as was for Windows 10). But perhaps not beyond that. So people have those VB apps now so when do they really need to start refactoring the entire code base into something else? Start now and avoid the rush? Wait until 2034? Wait until 2037 and when enough customers move onto a different provider because they don't want to run an older unsupported OS?
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Support policy for Visual Basic Support Statement for Visual Basic 6.0 | Microsoft Learn[^] Now as I read that it means that although they are not going to be improving VB they do intend, at least now, to make sure it runs until 2035 (presuming same life cycle for Windows 11 as was for Windows 10). But perhaps not beyond that. So people have those VB apps now so when do they really need to start refactoring the entire code base into something else? Start now and avoid the rush? Wait until 2034? Wait until 2037 and when enough customers move onto a different provider because they don't want to run an older unsupported OS?
A form is a form. VB6 is usually a (thin) front end to a client server system. No hurry given such a big window. Might even be premature; not knowing what's around the corner 2 - 5+ years in the future.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Support policy for Visual Basic Support Statement for Visual Basic 6.0 | Microsoft Learn[^] Now as I read that it means that although they are not going to be improving VB they do intend, at least now, to make sure it runs until 2035 (presuming same life cycle for Windows 11 as was for Windows 10). But perhaps not beyond that. So people have those VB apps now so when do they really need to start refactoring the entire code base into something else? Start now and avoid the rush? Wait until 2034? Wait until 2037 and when enough customers move onto a different provider because they don't want to run an older unsupported OS?
Now. Even VB.NET is a low priority. I would jump to C# and Dot Net 7.0+.
Graeme
"I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks one time, but I fear the man that has practiced one kick ten thousand times!" - Bruce Lee
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Support policy for Visual Basic Support Statement for Visual Basic 6.0 | Microsoft Learn[^] Now as I read that it means that although they are not going to be improving VB they do intend, at least now, to make sure it runs until 2035 (presuming same life cycle for Windows 11 as was for Windows 10). But perhaps not beyond that. So people have those VB apps now so when do they really need to start refactoring the entire code base into something else? Start now and avoid the rush? Wait until 2034? Wait until 2037 and when enough customers move onto a different provider because they don't want to run an older unsupported OS?
Oh my, am I that old already... I felt nostalgic a few weeks back and started up an old lappie of mine(showpiece on display now). Guess what I found - VB6 Enterprise was still installed, a major folder with many a project. Man, did I have fun for hours on end!
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Support policy for Visual Basic Support Statement for Visual Basic 6.0 | Microsoft Learn[^] Now as I read that it means that although they are not going to be improving VB they do intend, at least now, to make sure it runs until 2035 (presuming same life cycle for Windows 11 as was for Windows 10). But perhaps not beyond that. So people have those VB apps now so when do they really need to start refactoring the entire code base into something else? Start now and avoid the rush? Wait until 2034? Wait until 2037 and when enough customers move onto a different provider because they don't want to run an older unsupported OS?
Please recommend where to switch to. :laugh:
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I totally agree with the above "30 years ago"... but an orthogonal take is: that is in one and a half decade. Do you think your prog will be relevant at all in 2037? I would say that rather few 15-year-old programs are relevant today (regardless of what language they were written in), unless they have a billion-head-userbase like Word, Excel and those... But let's say i am wrong, and your prog remains attractive? Then I say Q: When should I switch ? A: When it is the least painful, i.e. ASAP
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
The software that controls Nestlè inspection machines was first written in 1996 in QBASIC, then ported to VB in 2000 and it is running today.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Support policy for Visual Basic Support Statement for Visual Basic 6.0 | Microsoft Learn[^] Now as I read that it means that although they are not going to be improving VB they do intend, at least now, to make sure it runs until 2035 (presuming same life cycle for Windows 11 as was for Windows 10). But perhaps not beyond that. So people have those VB apps now so when do they really need to start refactoring the entire code base into something else? Start now and avoid the rush? Wait until 2034? Wait until 2037 and when enough customers move onto a different provider because they don't want to run an older unsupported OS?
Who knows, maybe by then tech buzzwords will make a full cycle, RAD becomes a thing again and VB7.0 will be released.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Support policy for Visual Basic Support Statement for Visual Basic 6.0 | Microsoft Learn[^] Now as I read that it means that although they are not going to be improving VB they do intend, at least now, to make sure it runs until 2035 (presuming same life cycle for Windows 11 as was for Windows 10). But perhaps not beyond that. So people have those VB apps now so when do they really need to start refactoring the entire code base into something else? Start now and avoid the rush? Wait until 2034? Wait until 2037 and when enough customers move onto a different provider because they don't want to run an older unsupported OS?
I do wonder whether this is in some way linked to VBA. If it is I assume that Microsoft probably don't want to break the back end of Excel. The fallout from that would be significant
It goes without saying
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Support policy for Visual Basic Support Statement for Visual Basic 6.0 | Microsoft Learn[^] Now as I read that it means that although they are not going to be improving VB they do intend, at least now, to make sure it runs until 2035 (presuming same life cycle for Windows 11 as was for Windows 10). But perhaps not beyond that. So people have those VB apps now so when do they really need to start refactoring the entire code base into something else? Start now and avoid the rush? Wait until 2034? Wait until 2037 and when enough customers move onto a different provider because they don't want to run an older unsupported OS?
Those who haven't switched yet are prolly not ever going to. Personally, I stopped doing anything VB6 years ago and I'm not touching it again.
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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The software that controls Nestlè inspection machines was first written in 1996 in QBASIC, then ported to VB in 2000 and it is running today.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
