VB 5 to VB express ???

VB 5 to VB express ???

• TungNguyen

  That's really sad, I'm sorry to hear that.

  It's common for people when starting to write stuff without any idea of what is going on, just because they are following a tutorial. I have no idea how well the program in question will translate to VB.NET via the upgrade wizard, VB5 is significantly outdated. However, I'd stick to my guns and say that you need to work through a book using VB.NET without looking at this code, to get to any sort of point of being able to do anything with this code base. Otherwise, you'll be taking blind stabs at it.

  Your other option, if this is the only reason you'd even consider learning VB at all, is to go to www.rentacoder.com and find someone cheap who will make the changes you're looking for.

  
  
  

• shart

  Many thanks I will try rentacoder first, "why reinvent the wheel"

  If that doesnt work i'll be back

  Regards to all

  Animator

  
  

• Leton

  IF you have no knowledge of programming, I assume the VB5 app is not yours. You would do better not to bother with it, just work through the VBE book, or tutorials. VB6 was very different to VB.NET, and you'll only pick up bad habits and frustration from VB6 code.

  
  
  

• Phenom7413

  hi,

  i don't recomend you learn vb5 as what cgraus said, vb5 and vb.net is compleletly different items

  yes you can upgrade the code, but take a copy from it first then just open the project with the EE IDE and it will show you a dialog for conversion , but note the conversion will not done perfectly it will contain mistaks that you have to edit it yourself ,so you have to learn .net first there are some resources out there you can learn from it , there are some in this thread

  http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=212558&SiteID=1

  if you are interested in drawing shapes you will find a good tutorials in the following links

  http://www.bobpowell.net/beginnersgdi.htm

  http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/x7te38d7(VS.80).aspx

  hope this helps

  
  
  

• Stiny

  Hi Christian,

  Thanks for your quick response, yes it is sad he is only 28 and has Leukemia, the drugs are pretty severe and his life now is really topsy turvy nobody knows how bad it is, as I said I feel awful putting any type of pressure on him, he has enough to worry about.

  The only reason I am looking into learning VB is to be able to change the variabless when I need and not have to worry him. Thanks for your sadvice I will definately look at rentacoder, maybe they can help, its not the front end I can manage that it is just arranging the Variables so that I can have some control to suit the end product.

  Many thanks again, regards

  Animator

  
  

• dc33428

  Hi Thanks for your reply.

  The program is mine, it was written by a friend in VB 5 and I have the source code, sadly he has a chronic illness which has seen his life do a complete turnaround. I needed to do a revamp to improve the prog and sadly he just hasnt the interest or desire to carry on with anything, he has recently tried but the prog shows to many glitches. and it is not what I want. It has created a very delicate situation.

  The program itself is very simple but as I have said I have no knowledge, I cant keep asking him to change things as I feel it is putting pressure on him, which at the moment he doesnt need. Geez it sounds like an "Agony Aunt Column" sorry about that.

  I had the idea of learning VB Express solely for the purpose of reconstructing the program, and maybe naively thought I could possibly import "original" and then learn to play with the settings etc.

  The program has been created to build paths for an animation, in essence it is like a perpetual pong game that reads out X Y Z coordinates to a data base, these I use in 3DSMax to build a path that is chaotic, and yet easy to attach objects, if you know what I mean.

  Do you have any suggestion of how to go about it I would be very grateful for any advice. I dont even know if this software is to advanced for me to start learning.

  I have manged to build the "hello world" tut didnt know what I was doing.

  Any advice welcome,

  Many thanx

  Animator

  
  
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