White Paper: Migrating Applications to Visual Basic 5.0

ID: Q175531

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Visual Basic Learning, Professional, and Enterprise Editions for Windows, version 5.0

SUMMARY

Visual Basic 5.0 offers many new features and functions that make it a worthwhile platform to move to. Of course, the most compelling reason may be the fact that it now creates native code executables, resulting in performance gains over previous versions of Visual Basic. In addition, you have the ability to create ActiveX controls, ActiveDocs, as well as other features.

MORE INFORMATION

This document considers and discusses the following:

Reasons to migrate

Issues to Consider

Notable Changes to Visual Basic

Types of Change

Plan of Attack

Migration Resources

For more information about how to download files from the Microsoft Download Center, please visit the Download Center at the following Web address

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.asp

and then click How to use the Microsoft Download Center.

Migrate.exe

For more information about how to download files from the Microsoft Download Center, please visit the Download Center at the following Web address

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.asp

and then click How to use the Microsoft Download Center. You can also view this document in its entirety at the following URL:

http://www.microsoft.com/vbasic/docs/migrate/migrate.htm.

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