VB6 vs VB 2005 Express

alimh · 11-13-2006, 03:17 PM

I am trying to make a few changes in the weather plugin in order that it works behind a proxy.

I went to the microsoft website and they don't offer Visual Basic 6 anymore. The only product I saw was VB 2005 Express. This IDE is free. I'm not sure VB6 is/was. Well, I tried to open up the Road Runner project but it's saying that it needs to migrate the project to a .NET style. It starts to migrate but ends up stopping cause it says it can't find certain .dll's (which I found were actually in the RR source directory).

So my question is: Will RR be migrated to the new VB OR is there a way I can obtain VB6 so I can work on it?

guino · 11-13-2006, 05:29 PM

Pretty sure you'd have to buy a copy of it (even if 2nd hand). I work with it, so always had access to it. .NET however is just way below my standards of performance and minimal requirements, so I have no plans of going into it. However, you can still make plugins for RR in .NET (or any other language). But if you want to alter the current sources/plugins I'm afraid you'd have to get VB6.

Should be possible to import it, but I'm sure you'll have a hell of a time converting API code and such that isn't accepted in the same manner in .NET

alimh · 11-13-2006, 05:47 PM

Well thanks for the quick reply. I was afraid of that response, though.

I will try to use the weather code and build a plugin in .NET that I can use with the default RR.

Thanks!

alimh · 11-14-2006, 12:39 AM

Guino,

Do you have to "regsvr32 pluginname.dll" for every plug-in?

Is there a way to un-regsvr if we dont' use the plugin anymore?

guino · 11-14-2006, 05:36 AM

you have to register it cause that's how COM objects work.
you CAN unregister using the same command with a /U as the parameter.