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Noticed I still have the disks for Visual Studio 2000 Enterprise Edition; among other things.
Anyway, made me curious what was out there and found this. A lost jewel or ...?
WinWorld: Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0
"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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Google comes up with lots of links to download "VB6"; I wouldn't trust any of them. Aside from the questionable legality, there's no guarantee that the downloads won't be riddled with malware.
VS2008 is still available from Microsoft[^], and includes the tools to convert VB6 projects to VB.NET, which would probably be the best place to start.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Caveat emptor, certainly. But there are a few honest people left in the world. And a need is a need.
"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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I have it still, but it's on an old CD. Problem is, I don't have any CD-ROM drives to read it with. 
I might be going crazy, but I could've sworn MS made a conversion tool to migrate code from VB to VB.NET. That might be worth looking into.
Jeremy Falcon
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The Migration Wizard. But that thing is so old, it prolly just as supported as VB6.
If you have a VB6 project, you're fooked sideways.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"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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Single Step Debugger wrote: Hi, I have this old VB6 project that I need to modify a little
I've waited before posting my answer.
It's "no".
At this point it's a crime to "modify it a little". You don't even have to, because competition did update. Welcome to capitalism.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"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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I am running VB6 on a Windows 10 64-bit computer without any problems. We have even installed VB6 on a Windows 11 computer, also without problems.
I have coded in VB6 since 2000 and still do. Have worked on over 3000 programs and have been able to get VB6 to work in automated environments without any problems.
I use a wibsite that shows how to install on Windows 10 - How To Install Visual Basic 6 (VB6) in Windows 10[^]
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Quote: I am running VB6 on a Windows 10 64-bit computer without any problems - yet.
Fixed that for you.
You actually sound quite proud that you are still coding in an obsolete language that is no longer supported, that has to be run on an artificial platform within a platform, and cannot utilise modern architectures and tools. Not sure that I would want that noted on my CV 
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I say yes that VB6 is old.
I completely understand why anyone would want to perpetuate it.
There is a big huge learning process to move to a completely different language.
Most programmers have huge numbers of applications currently in use that need maintenance.
There is not much that “can’t be done “ with VB6
Finally, I have a mantra that I have very painfully learned years ago:
“IF IT AINT BROKE, DONT FIX IT”
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Quote: IF (YOU THINK) IT AINT BROKE, DONT FIX IT
Fixed that for ya.
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David Lema son wrote: Ddddd
But what is the question? Also, you are on the VB forum and your subject is C# (there is a separate forum for that). C# is one semitone short for discussions on D.
The best help that I can think of based on your text is ... (Using MS Windows Calculator in Programmer Mode)
Hex: Ddddd
Dec: 908765
Oct: 3356735
Bin: 11011101110111011101
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jsc42 wrote: But what is the question?
Look at his member profile: Member since Thu 19 Jan 2023. SPAM.
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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I already reported his message as "inappropriate"
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Hello,
We can use API to communicate two different applications.
I have one major doubt, that I am having my VB6.0 application need to integrate with third party webbased application.
Is this possible to use API keys through vb6.0 code to link with third party API?
Thanks
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This has nothing to do with the language being used. Yes, you can use the API keys, but it's your code and/or library that communicates with the API that's going to use the keys.
But, WHY ON EARTH ARE YOU USING VB6? It's been dead for 20 years now. New development in VB6 is a complete waste of time. You're going to end up rewriting this app sooner than you think. VB6 runtime support will end with the end of support for Windows 11. Support for the 22H2 version of Windows 11 will end in October 2025, just under 3 years from now.
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Thanks for the reply.
Actually main reason behind using vb6 is we have developed one big application in vb6 before 12 years which is currently been used very much finely and perfectly.
And it will be a big taks for us to upgrade it to vb.net hence instead of upgrading we are still using it.
Now just small changes are there which is like to integrate web based applications data with that application.
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I suggest you start planning the change to another platform, you have 3 years!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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OK, but you have a lot of planning to do. You WILL be re-writing this thing. Are you going to wait until it's too late to do it?
You better start now.
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Don't worry too much about people telling you that VB6 is outdated, dead, or both. There are millions and millions and millions lines of VB6 code out there, keeping companies running and being profitable. And if you have VB6 skills, you definitely have employment and earnings opportunities for many years to come. I should know: I am quickly approaching my 70th birthday, I am retired, and still bring home quite a bit of bacon by free-lancing, carefully selecting what I want from a ridiculous number of offers/requests.
Oh... when someone tells you that VB6 is outdated, dead, or both... just remind them of COBOL... 
And to come back to your question: yes, VB6 can be used to interact with many API. Depending on the API, you will use different tools and/or techniques. Sometimes it will be more difficult than using other, more modern languages. In other cases, strangely, it will be easier. Go figure.
Good luck with your project!
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This just goes to prove the point that VB6 applications should be retired and rewritten into a more modern language. You have a limited future as a viable developer and you are able to be very picky about which jobs you take on. While there may be millions of productive lines of code out there finding a young developer to support it is a challenge.
Encouraging anyone to continue with VB6 is doing them a disservice.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Thanks a lot.
gvidali thank you very much..such a relief from this tension.
Now i am going to search API key and definitely link with my VB6 application..
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It is interesting that you ignore the advice of two respected members with high reputations, but accept it from someone who has hardly contributed anything to these forums.
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No no ..
Even I am thankful to all of you for the reply and solutions.
I will think on evryone's opinion surely.
Thats why i have started working on it also.
But for API key, i need to integrate it in my existsing system thats why i said i am relieved from the tenion thats all.
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Here you go:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/122607/how-to-consume-a-web-service-from-vb6
The useful life of a "typical" program is 5 years; obviously, you (and I) don't believe in typical.
(I'm not one of the respected ones).
"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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