{"id":4593,"date":"2008-03-15T16:46:31","date_gmt":"2008-03-15T16:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/2008\/03\/15\/improvements-to-visual-basic-6-runtime-support-on-vista-windows-server-2008-by-paul-yuknewicz\/"},"modified":"2024-07-05T14:32:29","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T21:32:29","slug":"improvements-to-visual-basic-6-runtime-support-on-vista-windows-server-2008-by-paul-yuknewicz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/improvements-to-visual-basic-6-runtime-support-on-vista-windows-server-2008-by-paul-yuknewicz\/","title":{"rendered":"Improvements to Visual Basic 6 Runtime Support on Vista, Windows Server 2008 (by Paul Yuknewicz)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You probably didn&rsquo;t notice it, but we made some important and beneficial changes to the <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn2.microsoft.com\/en-us\/vbrun\/ms788708.aspx\">Support Statement for Visual Basic 6.0 on Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008<\/a> just a few weeks ago, and I want to share the good news. <\/p>\n<p>First, just like Vista, the Visual Basic 6 runtime is officially supported on Windows Server 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Second, we have expanded the list of ActiveX controls that are officially supported as part of Vista and Windows Server 2008. <\/p>\n<p>For background, when we first announced over a year ago that the Visual Basic 6.0 applications would &ldquo;just work&rdquo; on Windows Vista, many of you pointed out there were a number of widely used ActiveX controls, such as comctl32.ocx and richtx32.ocx, listed as &ldquo;tested but not shipping.&rdquo; That basically means they aren&rsquo;t supported on Vista, even though they are important pieces of many Visual Basic 6 applications. So the Visual Basic team spent the last year-plus talking with product teams all over Microsoft and offered to take over the code base for those components so we could support them. Now, we&rsquo;re pleased to announce that we have added support for a number of controls and components commonly used in VB6 apps, and identified compatible upgrades for some less commonly used controls.<\/p>\n<p>To summarize we hope these improvements will make you even more successful in preserving your VB6 assets.&nbsp; This should provide some peace of mind as you think about moving forward gradually to VB.NET, the most used MS .NET language, in VS2008 and future versions.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Best,<\/p>\n<p>Paul Yuknewicz<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You probably didn&rsquo;t notice it, but we made some important and beneficial changes to the Support Statement for Visual Basic 6.0 on Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 just a few weeks ago, and I want to share the good news. First, just like Vista, the Visual Basic 6 runtime is officially supported on Windows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"featured_media":8818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,195],"tags":[123,170],"class_list":["post-4593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-visual-basic","tag-paul-yuknewicz","tag-vb6_migrationinterop"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>You probably didn&rsquo;t notice it, but we made some important and beneficial changes to the Support Statement for Visual Basic 6.0 on Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 just a few weeks ago, and I want to share the good news. First, just like Vista, the Visual Basic 6 runtime is officially supported on Windows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vbteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}