Re: Preferred VB COM Development Environment?
- From: "Ralph" <nt_consulting64@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 18:05:56 -0600
"Will" <westes-usc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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What is the recommended platform for developing Visual Basic COMto
applications under Windows 2003 or Windows XP? Visual Studio / VB 6
install fine under Windows XP, but we had terrible problems getting them
work correctly under Windows 2003.
If we install VB.Net or Visual Studio 2005, is there still legacy support
there for developing VB COM applications? Is there any reason to prefer
developing COM applications in VB in either of those environments?
There is no "legacy" support for COM in dotNet.
You can create COM components and utilize COM components in dotNet using
'Interopt', but as the name implies it is more a emulator or translator than
true 'COM' and contains some subtle limitations.
[I will likely get flamed for the above statement. And you will soon hear
from others that say they are experiencing no problems. IMHO, that is
because they are willing to settle for a subset. But it is a matter of
degrees and what results you are expecting. In your problem domain -
Interopt may be entirely adequate.]
If I understand your question, Apps developed on Win2k can be run on
Win2003/XP and even Vista. (It it is the development environment and the IDE
that causes issues). So one can just use Win2k as the development box. We do
all VB6/COM development on Win2k boxes with an XP on the side for testing.
But MS is in the process of killing off Win2k.
If you need to develop ActiveX components for newer O/Ss, on those
platforms, then VC++/ATL/MFC is the best tool. Unfortunately, perhaps a step
backwards. <g>
hth
-ralph
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