Re: Where to purchase VB6
- From: "Uriah Piddle" <stephenprescott@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 14:54:47 -0500
I know having commerce here is over the line but there seems to be a need.
I have copies of VB5 Learning Edition and VB6 Pro (upgrade). The learning
edition qualifies you for the upgrade. I used them until I won a copy of VB6
Enterprise Edition as a door prize at a Carl and Gary's online seminar
several years ago. I bought the VB6 disks at VB Extras but I lost the
invoice. Anyway, if you want to pursue it further, please e-mail me.
"J French" <erewhon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 23:00:44 -0400, "MikeD" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>>To expand somewhat on this, MS hasn't sold VB6 in at least a couple years.
>>As far as I know, you can't even downgrade to VB6 from VB.NET anymore
>>(until
>>just fairly recently, you could...directly from MS). One way that I know
>>of
>>for sure of getting a legal copy of VB6 is through an MSDN Subscription.
>>You
>>can even still get VB2, VB3, and VB4 this way. Strangely, VB5 isn't
>>available through an MSDN Subscription. MS is still including VB6 in the
>>regular shipments you get as an MSDN Subscriber, but for all the older
>>versions, you have to download them from the MSDN Subscribers web site.
>
>>Some software/computer dealers might still have VB6, but most likely only
>>because they have backup stock of it (IOW, they can't get it from MS
>>anymore
>>either). Once they all ran out of it (or run out of it, as I suppose some
>>might still have it in stock), it became somewhat difficult to purchase
>>legally. You can usually find it on eBay (as Karl also mentioned), but
>>you
>>have to be very careful about buying it from a reputable seller.
>>Otherwise,
>>it's probably pirated, and you don't want that.
>
> To expand on the 'pirated' bit, there are fully working copies of VB
> on printed CDs with printed CD covers
> - in Bankok they sell for $3 to $6 - ditto in Hong Kong
>
> Some swine try to pass them off on Ebay and sell them for $100 s
>
> You also want to watch out for 'Academic Editions' they are fine, but
> the single thing that you are after, the license, does not permit
> selling your App.
>
> Buying software on Ebay is a bit of a minefield
> - also IME Ebay is very rude when you point out the scams
.
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