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I thought I would give you the heads up on the fact the mono project
now has a vb complier that compiles itself.

As mono is open source it would be possible to fork this project to
make a vb6 complier for the .NET framework or at least a .NET complier
that works better with VB6 code.

This the link to the subversion repository
svn://svn.myrealbox.com/source/trunk/vbnc

Info on how subversion is setup at mono

http://www.mono-project.com/SVN

The link to the mono "Summer of Code" program that got it to this
point.

http://www.mono-project.com/Summer2006

Rob Conley

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