How to open visual basic 6 program with visual studio.net

Question

I want to open a program (written in Visual basic 6) to be open in Visual Studio.net. Please guide, how could I do that?

While trying to open VB6 (.vbp file) program

Answer 1

Speaking from my Experience, its not easy to open a Visual Basic 6.0 project in any Versions of Visual Studio above 2008.

Although 2008 and below version provide an automatic function to convert Vb6 code to VB.net framework. But the problem starts after the conversion, it Skips some code, add function/variables on its own, or modify the functional behavior on its own, with it the VB.proj will be created with error and you will not be able to open it anywhere as solution file. 3rd party tools also the same.

If you want to open the VB6 code try Visual Basic 6.0 Portable edition. But headache will still follow you there, please refer this link Installation of VB6 on Windows 7 (or Windows 8) (or Windows 10)