VB6 and VB.NET On Same Machine

[irasmith]

Just another question I have as I continue to plan out how to approach going about using VB.NET for work.

Can the VB6 development environment and the VB.NET development environment be installed and exist on the same machine?

Point of my question is in relation to VB6 code/applications that I may be asked to migrate to VB.NET.
Thanks,
Ira

 

[mutant]

Yeah, the can coexist on the same OS.

 

[irasmith]

Thank you for the reply and that is great news to hear.

I really appreciate the input on these early questions I have had.
Ira

 

[Nerseus]

You can even have .NET v1 and .NET v1.1 (also known as 2003) on the same machine at the same time, though you might run into issues if you use 3rd party controls that need different versions for each version of .NET (or a separate COM version for .NET and VB6).

-Nerseus

 

[irasmith]

Thank you for your input as well and I will make note of what you shared in the posting.

I am just in the general stages of looking at doing some things and so my questions have been of a general nature just to find out if I could potentially do the types of things I wanted to.

I have put my order in for VB.NET Standard and a book to help guide me through and begin learning. It is good to know that there is the possibility that I can do what I had asked about. When I get to that point of attempting it, should things not go well, Ill make additional posts to see what can be done.

Thanks for your input,
Ira