Upgrading a 1999 VB6 Webclasses system

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From: Archie Campbell (archie_at_accordsystems.com)
Date: 07/16/04

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    Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 14:14:44 -0600

    In 1999 I developed and implemented a Web Forms processing system using VB6
    Webclasses, Adobe Acrobat FDF info stored in a MS SQL7 database on a WinNT4
    SP6 machine. Basically the user gets a PDF document in their web browser,
    they fill in the fields. The data is stored as FDF in a blob field in the
    server's SQL7 database. The shell PDF document can be stored either at the
    website or on the user's local harddrive.

    It had a bug in 2001. Some short integer needed to be made into a long
    integer. That was the last time I looked at it.
    Its form ID file is up to 113000 records so it seems to have been used a
    lot.

    I have the source code but I dont even have Visual Studio 6? installed
    anymore.
    (I use DataFlex for most of my software development)

    The customer phoned the other day.
    They would like some changes made to the system (just minor stuff). Plus the
    main problem right now is users that have Adobe Acrobat 6 seem to be running
    into difficulty processing the forms.

    My Question:
    What is a good upgrade path here?
    Can I/Should I stay with VB6?
    Does this VB6 stuff run on a Win2000 or Win2003 server?
    Is Adobe PDF with FDF still a good way to handle forms on the Web?

    Any thoughts would be appreciated.

    Thanks
    Archie

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