RIP VB6

**Tom Shelton** · Apr 9 '08, 06:05 PM

Re: RIP VB6

On 2008-04-09, Tom Dacon <tdacon@communi ty.nospamwrote:

Yesterday, April 8th, Microsoft officially dropped support for Visual Basic
6.0.
>
COM-based VB1 through VB6 had a long and successful life from 1991 to 2008 -
seventeen years. I heard elsewhere that VB6 was ten years old, but I don't

Wasn't VB only based on COM starting with v5?

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Tom Shelton

**Tom Dacon** · Apr 9 '08, 06:15 PM

Re: RIP VB6

You know, Tom, as soon as I reread what I posted I remembered that, although
I couldn't remember just which version was rewritten on top of COM. VB5, you
say? Thank you.

One thing I DO remember was writing VBX controls in the C language for VB3,
and that was far from COM.

Tom

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On 2008-04-09, Tom Dacon <tdacon@communi ty.nospamwrote:

>Yesterday, April 8th, Microsoft officially dropped support for Visual
>Basic
>6.0.
>>
>COM-based VB1 through VB6 had a long and successful life from 1991 to
>2008 -
>seventeen years. I heard elsewhere that VB6 was ten years old, but I
>don't

>
Wasn't VB only based on COM starting with v5?
>
--
Tom Shelton

**Tom Shelton** · Apr 9 '08, 06:35 PM

Re: RIP VB6

On 2008-04-09, Tom Dacon <tdacon@communi ty.nospamwrote:

You know, Tom, as soon as I reread what I posted I remembered that, although
I couldn't remember just which version was rewritten on top of COM. VB5, you
say? Thank you.
>
One thing I DO remember was writing VBX controls in the C language for VB3,
and that was far from COM.

I'm pretty sure that VB4 still used VBX controls...

--
Tom Shelton

**Lloyd Sheen** · Apr 9 '08, 07:25 PM

Re: RIP VB6

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On 2008-04-09, Tom Dacon <tdacon@communi ty.nospamwrote:

>You know, Tom, as soon as I reread what I posted I remembered that,
>although
>I couldn't remember just which version was rewritten on top of COM. VB5,
>you
>say? Thank you.
>>
>One thing I DO remember was writing VBX controls in the C language for
>VB3,
>and that was far from COM.

>
I'm pretty sure that VB4 still used VBX controls...
>
--
Tom Shelton

VB4 was the first com based VB. I remember this because I was on a team
that converted a VB3 app which used VBX's (an I did a few with C - no ++ no
#).

And 1991 was first year of VB. I got my first copy at the launch in Long
Beach. Had to wait 3 weeks to use it since this was a holiday. Being from
Ottawa Canada there was no great distribution system then. VB1 was great if
you had Petzold'ed an app.

VB5 as the first version to provide OCX's.

Lloyd Sheen

**Tom Shelton** · Apr 9 '08, 08:05 PM

Re: RIP VB6

On 2008-04-09, Lloyd Sheen <a@b.cwrote:

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"Tom Shelton" <tom_shelton@YO UKNOWTHEDRILLco mcast.netwrote in message
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>On 2008-04-09, Tom Dacon <tdacon@communi ty.nospamwrote:

>>You know, Tom, as soon as I reread what I posted I remembered that,
>>although
>>I couldn't remember just which version was rewritten on top of COM. VB5,
>>you
>>say? Thank you.
>>>
>>One thing I DO remember was writing VBX controls in the C language for
>>VB3,
>>and that was far from COM.

>>
>I'm pretty sure that VB4 still used VBX controls...
>>
>--
>Tom Shelton

>
>
VB4 was the first com based VB. I remember this because I was on a team
that converted a VB3 app which used VBX's (an I did a few with C - no ++ no
#).
>

VB4 came in 2 versions, one 32-bit and 16-bit. Are you sure it was COM
based?

--
Tom Shelton

**Lloyd Sheen** · Apr 9 '08, 09:25 PM

Re: RIP VB6

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On 2008-04-09, Lloyd Sheen <a@b.cwrote:

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>"Tom Shelton" <tom_shelton@YO UKNOWTHEDRILLco mcast.netwrote in message
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>>On 2008-04-09, Tom Dacon <tdacon@communi ty.nospamwrote:
>>>You know, Tom, as soon as I reread what I posted I remembered that,
>>>although
>>>I couldn't remember just which version was rewritten on top of COM.
>>>VB5,
>>>you
>>>say? Thank you.
>>>>
>>>One thing I DO remember was writing VBX controls in the C language for
>>>VB3,
>>>and that was far from COM.
>>>
>>I'm pretty sure that VB4 still used VBX controls...
>>>
>>--
>>Tom Shelton

>>
>>
>VB4 was the first com based VB. I remember this because I was on a team
>that converted a VB3 app which used VBX's (an I did a few with C - no ++
>no
>#).
>>

>
VB4 came in 2 versions, one 32-bit and 16-bit. Are you sure it was COM
based?
>
--
Tom Shelton

Found the three methods:

House of Straw, House of Bricks and House of Sticks

LS

**Tom Dacon** · Apr 9 '08, 09:55 PM

Re: RIP VB6

Man, you're taking me back...

Tom Dacon
Dacon Software Consulting

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>

>
Found the three methods:
>
House of Straw, House of Bricks and House of Sticks
>
>
LS

**Lloyd Sheen** · Apr 9 '08, 10:35 PM

Re: RIP VB6

"Tom Dacon" <tdacon@communi ty.nospamwrote in message
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Man, you're taking me back...
>
Tom Dacon
Dacon Software Consulting
>
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>

>>
>Found the three methods:
>>
>House of Straw, House of Bricks and House of Sticks
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>>
>LS

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>

Me too. The app I was talking about was being released in its new 32bit
form on that new OS Windows 95. It was being featured in a book (with a
diskette) so they wanted screen shots of it running in Win95. Well we had
the beta and I spent the better part of a day installing from ...... the 57
diskettes.

Oh the good old days.

Yeah sure.
LS

**Tom Dacon** · Apr 10 '08, 12:25 AM

Re: RIP VB6

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Oh the good old days.
>
Yeah sure.
LS

Here's one probably only a few people remember -

In VB1, I was putting my comments above the sub or function line, like a
good C programmer, as in:

'
' Comments here
'
Sub Main()
End Sub

When I loaded a project into VB2 for the first time, all the comments that
lay outside the methods were swept up and collected into the declarations
area at the top of the module! So I had to find the comments for each of the
methods and put them INSIDE the method, through god knows how much code. I
kept doing it that way ever since, through all the later versions of VB. I
think that was fixed in VB3, but by that time I was in the habit of putting
them inside so I just kept doing it that way. With VB.Net I started putting
them outside again.

Tom

**Lloyd Sheen** · Apr 10 '08, 01:05 AM

Re: RIP VB6

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"Lloyd Sheen" <a@b.cwrote in message
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>Oh the good old days.
>>
>Yeah sure.
>LS

>
Here's one probably only a few people remember -
>
In VB1, I was putting my comments above the sub or function line, like a
good C programmer, as in:
>
'
' Comments here
'
Sub Main()
End Sub
>
When I loaded a project into VB2 for the first time, all the comments that
lay outside the methods were swept up and collected into the declarations
area at the top of the module! So I had to find the comments for each of
the methods and put them INSIDE the method, through god knows how much
code. I kept doing it that way ever since, through all the later versions
of VB. I think that was fixed in VB3, but by that time I was in the habit
of putting them inside so I just kept doing it that way. With VB.Net I
started putting them outside again.
>
Tom
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>
>
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>

Don't think I ever used VB2.

LS