Visual Basic 6 still strong after all of these years.
The death of Microsoft Visual Basic 6 has been tremendously exaggerated as the saying goes. VB6 is still used as of today by developers that find it easy to use and can develop a quick 32 bit Windows application. The issues that pertain to VB6 are components that are no longer supported since either the vendors have gone out of business or no longer support VB6. Visual Basic 6.0 (enterprise or professional) was released in 1998 and support was dropped in 2005. Since then Microsoft has pushed the Visual Basic.NET version that works with various Windows platforms but is extremely different then what the older VB6 Developer was use to. There is a Visual Basic 6 petition available by clicking here. The web site does have issues and doesn't always…