I promised myself this year I would forget vb6 and once again try to sit
down and learn vb.net.
I have written many applications in vb6 that need migration to the .net
platform but it's just so hard to forget everything and start afresh. I
really feel that knowing vb6 would have to be the biggest obstacle in
learning the .net language.
I'm just getting weened on data access but the new way of printing has got
me totally lost. My old apps use the Printer object and nothing is going to
update my code that dynamically creates my flow charts and tables of data
on the page without a complete rewrite using .net.
Is there a simpler way? eg. add a reference to a vb6 library that will
allow the old code to work?
Print code is fiddly. It rarely looks right first time. As you know you use
a lot of trial and error (and paper)before you get the perfect result you
want. It will take me years to rewrite this stuff and I don't want to spend
that amount of time just to get it to do the same printout using a different
language.
