In Visual Studio Code there is an extension called "Codesnap",
I want to know if there is something similar in Visual Studio as well?
I am looking for an opportunity to use Visual Studio for VBA. Specially for Excel Makros. Reason is, to use all the supporting Features of Visual Studio e.g. TFS Connection. Is that possible?
No, but you can create VSTO projects in Visual Studio instead
Is it possible to modify and run existing VB Visual Studio 2010 projects in Visual Studio Code? I have some VB.NET projects that I would like to open in visual studio code and I haven't found anything online that says whether or not this is possible. Drag and drop functionality isn't necessary for me, I only care about being able to run the source code.
I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 if that makes any difference.
Thanks in advance!
You can use Visual Studio Code to edit any text file you want.
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 directly from the OPEN project option in visual studion.net, I was getting this error,
"Visual Basic 6 (.vbp) files cannot be opened in Visual Studio"
I am trying to open in VS 2010.
Visual Studio 2010 does not support VB6 projects. See the link here
From the msdn documentation:
Visual Studio 2010 does not provide tools for upgrading applications and projects from Visual Basic 6.0. If you want to upgrade your project from Visual Basic 6.0 to Visual Basic 2010, you can use the upgrade tools provided with earlier versions of Visual Studio and then upgrade the project again in Visual Studio 2010.
Visual Basic Tools for Visual Studio
There's a plugin called Visual Basic Tools for Visual Studio that provides the following features:
load classic VB workspace- and project-files and offers quick access to the extension´s options
integrates with the solution explorer and the code editor having support for syntax highlighting, basic outlining (allows to expand/collapse methods, properties and types) as well as navigation bar support.
Classes, Types, Modules, Forms and Controls can be inspected using the Object Browser and Class View.
From the reading, it's unclear if you can actually build the project, though it does say:
The import tool creates a new solution and MSBuild compatible projects.
Links to the plugin by VS Version
2012-2013
2015
2017
RAD Basic
There is also an independent IDE called RAD Basic that claims the following features:
New and modern IDE (Integrated Development Environment) with form designer supporting drag and drop, code completion, refactoring tools, etc.
RAD Basic Compiler: Compiler 100% compatible with your VB6 project (vbp, frm, bas and cls files). Generate native executables (exe and ocx) in both 32-bit and 64-bit.
RAD Basic Forms: Reimplementation of common VB6 controls and components supporting 32-bit and 64-bit.
etc.
Speaking from my experience, it's not easy to open a Visual Basic 6.0 project in any versions of Visual Studio above 2008.
Although 2008 and below versions do provide an automatic function to convert Vb6 code to the VB.net framework. But, the problem starts after the conversion - it can skip some code, add functions/variables on its own, or modify the functional behavior on its own, and with that the VB.proj will be created with errors and you will not be able to open it anywhere as a solution file. The same with any 3rd party tools.
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 / 8 / 10
Make sure you are clicking on the project file itself... Right click on the file and select "Open With" and select your visual studio program. It may need to be converted and if so, it will prompt you to convert the project.
Thanks!
Download Visual Basic Tools for Visual Studio,allows to work with classic VB workspaces and projects
I have to continue to support VB6 applications. I've got both VB6 (Visual Studio 6) installed and Visual Studio 2008 as well. Can I read and write to VB6 projects while in Visual Studio 2008? Will it damage or destroy my VB6 application? It would be very cool if I could free up a lot of space and get rid of Visual Studio 6.
Visual Studio 2008 can't compile VB6 applications. You could use it as a text editor only (though it will offer you the VB.NET IntelliSense, not VB6). However, you need Visual Studio 6 to be able to build your application.
The VB6 IDE will coexist along side the Visual Studio 2008 quite happily.
The VB.NET LANGUAGE is related but not compatible with VB6. Conversion between VB6 and VB.NET is problematic. There are a lot of subtle and gross differences between the two making them effectively separate languages.
You need to keep both separate IDES and libraries installed on your computer in order to deal with both languages.
If you need for the two interoperate you can do this by creating COM libraries. Both languages can consume COM Libraries created in the other.
If you remove VB6 you won't be able to build your VB6 apps? VS2002/3/5/8 doesn't know how to compile VB6 projects.