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upgrade from VB 6.5 to .net?

Hi, apologies in advance for what may be a newbie question. I have the
following situation:

I have an API I want to use from Excel that requires the .net framework. I
have Vista / Excel with VB 6.5. Is there some way to upgrade VB 6.5 to VB
..net so that I can use the API from visual basic in Excel, without developing
a whole application in Visual Studio somehow?

Thanks!
Nov 9 '08 #1
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You should try downloading VB.Net 2008 Express. It is free and probably
sufficient for what you are doing. You may get it at
http://www.microsoft.com/express/vb/

As to VB 6.5, I have no idea what this is. I know VB 6.0, which predates VB
..net 2003, 2005 and 2008. VB .Net is "very" different from VB 6.0, if that
is what you had.

"Lloyd Spencer" <Lloyd Sp*****@discuss ions.microsoft. comwrote in message
news:A7******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com...
Hi, apologies in advance for what may be a newbie question. I have the
following situation:

I have an API I want to use from Excel that requires the .net framework.
I
have Vista / Excel with VB 6.5. Is there some way to upgrade VB 6.5 to VB
.net so that I can use the API from visual basic in Excel, without
developing
a whole application in Visual Studio somehow?

Thanks!
Nov 9 '08 #2
"Family Tree Mike" <Fa************ @ThisOldHouse.c omschrieb:
You should try downloading VB.Net 2008 Express. It is free and probably
sufficient for what you are doing. You may get it at
http://www.microsoft.com/express/vb/

As to VB 6.5, I have no idea what this is.
That's IIRC the VBA version shipping with Office 2007. Basically it's the
same as the previous version of VBA.

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>

Nov 9 '08 #3
Thanks, I didn't know about that update.

"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" <hi************ ***@gmx.atwrote in message
news:%2******** ********@TK2MSF TNGP05.phx.gbl. ..
"Family Tree Mike" <Fa************ @ThisOldHouse.c omschrieb:
>You should try downloading VB.Net 2008 Express. It is free and probably
sufficient for what you are doing. You may get it at
http://www.microsoft.com/express/vb/

As to VB 6.5, I have no idea what this is.

That's IIRC the VBA version shipping with Office 2007. Basically it's the
same as the previous version of VBA.

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>
Nov 9 '08 #4

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