In this chapter, you have been introduced to several factors you need to consider before deciding whether or how to enhance your VB applications to meet future business needs. The various checklists provided here and others available from Microsoft will help you decide whether to migrate, replace, rewrite, or reuse an existing VB 6 application. You have also learned how you can continue to use COM objects legacy or otherwise in a VB 2005 application. Finally, you have seen how two tools provided by Microsoft (Code Advisor for VB 6 and Upgrade Wizard) can help you upgrade your applications from VB 6 to VB 2005, once you've decided to do so. |