Late / Early Binding - comments please and advice on .NET ?

From: Brian Elliott (bre2_at_tesco.net)
Date: 02/28/05 

Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 18:21:15 GMT

I must first thank those that have explained what the above means in
previous postings.

My problem was when transferring VB6 [ Student Ed ] progs. using OFFICE 97
from a WIN 98 machine to a WIN XP2 machine [ and using the same software ] I
was unable to use such statements as:-

Set wbook1 = Excel1.Workbook.Open ( "c:\ etc.......") which gave an '
Open method object failure ' message. This is because I am unable to
initiate ' Early Binding ' with the compiler.

I have now tried Public excel1 as Object, Public wbook1 as Object, Public
xx as String

then Set excel1 = CreateObject ( " excel.Application ")
        Set wbook1 = GetObject (xx, "excel.Application")
                      xx = "c:\....... etc. "

which so far seems to work! [ This initiates LATE binding ].

I have [ at the moment ] one remaining problem - I need to use Internet
Transfer Controls, specifically the Active X object Inet. I now
understand [ which I half suspected ] that the Student edition of VB6 cannot
use this object - I therefore need some advice on what to buy to replace VB6
that will work with Office 97, work with WIN 98 and XP2 and allow me to use
Inet [ or its equivalent ].

I have many large VB6 programs and I am not a programmer. I have a limited
budget.

Any advice is most welcome.

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