[AccessD] MS Access to VB6 or VB.net

DWUTKA at marlow.com DWUTKA at marlow.com
Mon Sep 13 09:35:58 CDT 2004


VB 6 is going to last a long time.  It is going to take a major, VERY major
OS change to require 'upgrading' VB 6.0 applications.  If you have some
clients that cannot even use VB.NET yet, I would say that isn't even an
option then.

Just out of curiousity, why change the backend?  With a VB interface, Access
is no longer required at all, and you can you any version you want.

Drew

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Griffiths,
Richard
Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 4:20 AM
To: AccessD at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: [AccessD] MS Access to VB6 or VB.net


Hi Group

After advice and thoughts.  I have a piece of commercial software (library
s/ware for schools) written with A97 FE and BE.  I am about to rewrite and
can't decide over VB6 FE/A2K(DAO) BE or VB.net FE / A2K BE.(reason for
change to VB as opposed to MS Access is that the VB footprint will be
smaller 1-2mb [easier to email/download and manage than my 12-13 mb Access
FE]).

On one hand the VB6 route will be quicker to develop (no learning curve) and
I think to deploy. On the other hand VB.Net is the future (most
likely!!)(and learning and developing in this will be more interesting and
will spur me on) but I am concerned (mainly) about deployment as my users
are not very IT literate and their pc's (at this time) are not up-to-date
(some W95 many W98 32-64mb ram - I know .net is no go on W95).  So
deployment of .net requires not only the framework but they need minimal
Data Access 2.7, IE 5.01, Windows installer etc also installed.  But 6-12
months down the line I don't want to be in the posistion that having used
VB6 to then consider rewriting in Vb.net.

What I can't gauge here is how significant these issues are (and any other
issues).  So what I am hoping to get here is how you would approach this
conundrum - tried and tested VB6 or new VB.net?

Thanks 

Richard



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