I need to read some voltages into my CNC control. I'm looking at purchase of
this.
http://www.dataq.com/products/startkit/di148.htm

A few years ago I learned enough Visual Basic 6 to be dangerous. I need to
re-learn a visual basic program to figure how to use an activeX to send the
data to my CNC app. under windows XP. May need to go to Vista at some future
time.

I looked at VB.net a while back. I said to myself,"Self, they made this a
lot harder and changed everything." Now, I see VB6 is no longer supported.

OK, it would be easier for me to just use the program I know (a little).
But, I don't want to redo this project because it won't run when the OS is
upgraded, etc.

Should I stay with VB6? Or move up to the latest VB10, I think?

Karl

Karl, if all you want to do is get the CNC working and you don't want to
start a new career as a VB.Net programmer, I suggest that you stay with VB6.

While Microsoft is dropping support for VB6, what that means is that they're
no longer answering the phone from their corporate customers for technical
support on the product. For all the rest of us, we just install VB6 from the
CD, update it with the latest service pack, and go for it. It continues to
work just fine. If you need help with some programming issue, go to one of
the Microsoft newsgroups that start with microsoft.public.vb.* (news server:
msnews.microsoft.com).

Service pack 6 can be downloaded from this Microsoft web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

This is a cumulative update and can be installed over any service pack level
that you already have installed (if any).

VB.Net is a completely different animal. It's a really good development
environment, but learning your way into it requires a deep commitment if you
want to master it. Your VB6 applications will run on Vista, and when Windows
7 comes out will run on that OS too. I make no guarantees about 64-bit
versions of Windows, but MS would be lunatics if they didn't have some way
to run 32-bit applications like VB6 apps under 64-bit versions of Windows.

Good luck,
Tom Dacon
VB1 - VB6 and VB.Net programmer of many, many years


"Karl Townsend" wrote in message
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I need to read some voltages into my CNC control. I'm looking at purchase
of this.
http://www.dataq.com/products/startkit/di148.htm

A few years ago I learned enough Visual Basic 6 to be dangerous. I need to
re-learn a visual basic program to figure how to use an activeX to send
the data to my CNC app. under windows XP. May need to go to Vista at some
future time.

I looked at VB.net a while back. I said to myself,"Self, they made this a
lot harder and changed everything." Now, I see VB6 is no longer supported.

OK, it would be easier for me to just use the program I know (a little).
But, I don't want to redo this project because it won't run when the OS is
upgraded, etc.

Should I stay with VB6? Or move up to the latest VB10, I think?

Karl