IS VISUAL BASIC 6 KILLING YOUR BUSINESS?

No? OK, we'll re-phrase the headline Visual Basic 6 IS killing your business. Visual Basic was written many years ago (Hence the 80s style of the website), It has long since been forgotten by Microsoft, yet, manages to cling to existence in thousands of businesses across the world.

For many years Visual Basic 3, 4, 5, and 6 development was seen as a simple, effective way of rapidly developing applications for Windows platforms. Developers and businesses put up with the flaws and the lack of flexibility because of the 'leg-up' the developer got in terms of speed of development.

WHY DO I NEED TO CHANGE?

Visual Basic is donkeys years old and is reliant on a technology called 'COM' that, although it is still supported by Microsoft, has been superceeded by the newer .NET Interop model.

Getting Visual Basic to talk to a .NET application is a non-trivial exercise and it will become more difficult as the .NET side of things becomes more developed over the next few years.

At present the need to change from Visual Basic is not critical, however, the longer you leave this problem, the bigger it will become. There are numerous reasons why it is important to migrate listed below are a few of the more important ones.

• Visual Basic developers are a rare breed, and are becoming rarer, if you leave it until the last minute to change, it's going to cost.
• Interoperability with other software is becoming more difficult.
• Other software in your organisation has to be 'hamstrung' to communicate with your legacy Visual Basic applications.
• Visual Basic does not support modern day threading and concurrency theories that make the software incredibly inflexible.
• The last version released was in 1998!

I JUST NEED MY CODE FIXED!

That's fine, give us a call and we can fix/enhance your existing Visual Basic applications (And we won't point out the problems as we do it, you have our word).