Using Visual Basic 6 with Visual Basic .NET
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with your Visual Basic 6 UI client, you can update the client to take advantage. use existing components that communicate across COM and .NET component boundaries. example is a Visual Basic 6 ActiveX document or DHTML page designer for ...
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Using Visual Basic 6 with Visual Basic .NET: COM Interop 175 Using Visual Basic 6 with Visual Basic .NET: COM Interop This chapter focuses on making your Visual Basic 6 and Visual Basic .NET applications work together. The mechanism that makes interoperability between the two products possible is known as COM interop. Well start by looking at the various ways you can create or use existing components that communicate across COM and .NET component boundaries. Well also show you how to debug across calls between Visual Basic 6 and Visual Basic .NET authored components. Finally, well discuss the role of binary compatibility in Visual Basic .NET. If youve been creating multitiered applications using Visual Basic 6, your application has likely evolved into a large system spanning multiple components. Lets say, for example, that you have an application composed of a Visual Basic standard EXE front end containing ActiveX controls talking to a middletier Visual Basic DLL. The Visual Basic DLL in turn talks to a back-end SQL Server database. Upgrading such an application to Visual Basic .NET in one shot is nearly impossible. This is where COM interop swoops in to save the day. COM interop allows you to upgrade one component at a time while keeping the system alive. For example, you can upgrade your Visual Basic 6 middletier component to Visual Basic .NET independently of the user interface (UI) C0961587x.fm Thursday, November 15, 2001 3:33 PM 176 Part II Upgrading Applications component. Once you have tested your new Visual Basic .NET component with your Visual Basic 6 UI client, you can update the client to take advantage of the new Visual Basic .NET server component. At a later date you may decide to upgrade your Visual Basic 6 client components to Visual Basic .NET components. An ActiveX control vendor may offer a .NET upgrade to your favorite ActiveX control, leading you to replace all ActiveX versions of the control in your application with the .NET version. Eventually your entire system evolves to .NET, smoothly and without interruption. Visual Studio .NET Is Built on COM Interop You do not need to look far for an example of COM interop at work. If youre running Visual Studio .NET, COM interop is right under your nose. The Property Browser is written in C , a language built on the .NET Framework. Most of the designers you will find, such as the Windows Forms designer, are written in a language supported by .NET. All of the wizards are written in either C or Visual Basic .NET. The Visual Studio .NET environment is a traditional client application written in C++ that interoperates with these other .NET components using COM interop. The Upgrade Wizard relies heavily on COM interop to accomplish its tasks. The wizard is a .NET component that calls out to the upgrade engine, an out-of-process COM EXE server, to upgrade your Visual Basic 6 project. The upgrade engine in turn calls back to the wizard to provide status. As your application is being ...
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