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liz72701
PostPosted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 6:53 am    Post subject: Is VB 6 offically deprecated? Reply with quote

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We have a developer at our company who is wanting to dust off an old VB 6 client application and reuse it. This application already has various issues and does not run reliably. We're partway through a migration from 5.3 to 6.0 migration on 70+ queue managers. The queue manager they are wanting to use with this application is still a 5.3 queue manager at present but will be upgraded to version 6.0 this year. I've read on some discussions that VB6 is deprecated and VB.net is preferred now. I've tried to get them to rewrite the application in VB.net but the are resisting saying it's too much work.

Is there anything "official" (link?) from IBM saying that VB6 is deprecated? If I can provide some documentation to this effect they will at least consider a rewrite.

Thanks!
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Vitor
PostPosted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 7:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Depending on how old it is, it might be using the ActiveX control to access WMQ, which is depreciated (look it up on the IBM site - it is or was a support pac) and shouldn't be used.

I have myself encountered such a beast (VB6 with ActiveX) that had been running unmodifed for years. It's queue manager was migrated to v6 and we never got the app to start again!



If it's using the standard libraries you should have more luck.
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