VBasic Question: VB6 And VB.NET Compatibility ?

[l337 Nurse Pedestrian 0]

Simple question: Will VB.net programming codes and stuff work with the previous version, Visual Basic 6? Because I have VB 6. But I learned .net....so yeah......

Edited April 19, 2005 by microscopic^earthling (see edit history)

[miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG 0]

No chance buddy - the new .NET Framework has complete remodelled the code design - breaking all your code into complete OOP based class structures. You can still write code that is backward compatible with VB6 - but even the way vb6 and vb.net handles Form Control "Events" is vastly different with non-conforming method/subroutine signatures. In effect, code written for vb6 can be upgraded for .net - but code that you write for .net cannot be run on vb6 unless you modify large parts of it (in the process loosing all programming advantages that the new .net framework gives you). So there...