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VB6 and VB.NET are barely related. But, ignoring that, almost any app of any complexity in VB6 land will rely on bugs, quirks, and implementation details. (Al

VB6 and VB.NET are barely related. But, ignoring that, almost any app of any complexity in VB6 land will rely on bugs, quirks, and implementation details. (Also, I was never clear if the binary format for editing forms was actually documented somewhere). Someone could implement their own VB6 parser, but it seems like a ton of work for a vanishing market. All of that said, while typing this, a quick search revealed https://www.radbasic.dev/ https://www.radbasic.dev/ , so maybe someone's trying. Well, it's a Kickstarter, so maybe someone just has an idea. Dunno.

bluedino 7y ago
>> but it seems like a ton of work for a vanishing market. That market isn't going anywhere anytime soon, though. There are a lot of XP machines out there running critical VB code...
- 2fast4you 7y ago
  You can run VB6 on Windows Server 2019. I should know, it’s in production right now
dirtydroog 7y ago
My final year project was a VB6 -> JVM compiler. I underestimated how big VB6 actually was and so only had time to implement a small fraction of the language. I did discover a bug in the IDE's code completion/formatter that would cause a compilation failure when the project was next loaded. That code is on a floppy somewhere