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which book i should prefer for vb6.

and from where i can download msdn for vb6. if any one know any link then please share it

ashish
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    I believe that MS are going to be stopping support for VB6 in the not too distant future. Can I ask why you are learning VB6 instead on .Net? – El Ronnoco Sep 30 '10 at 13:58
  • Have to agree with El Ronnoco, VB6 is for all intents and purposes a "dead" language in that it'll only be used to support legacy code. – wheaties Sep 30 '10 at 14:01
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    actually i am working on maintenance of a project that is in vb6.and i am not full aware of vb syntax and all. – ashish Sep 30 '10 at 14:04
  • VB6 support actually finished on April 2008 - http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/search/Default.aspx?sort=PN&alpha=visual%20basic%206. I remember having a drink with my colleagues that evening! – Joe Ratzer Sep 30 '10 at 14:33
  • MSDN for VB6 stopped shipping when Visual Studio.NET came out (sometime in late 2001) – renick Sep 30 '10 at 14:41
  • @ashish The answers to these other questions will be useful http://stackoverflow.com/questions/166138/learning-vb6 and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1595737/good-tutorial-for-visual-basic-6 – MarkJ Sep 30 '10 at 16:20
  • @El Ronnoco @Joe R @renick Those statements need some clarification. The VB6 IDE support ended in April 2008, but the VB6 runtime is [still supported and will be until at least 2018](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vbasic/ms788708.aspx). The VB6 documentation is still [on the MSDN website right now](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa314411%28VS.60%29.aspx) although AFAICR it has been removed from the CD/DVD version of MSDN. – MarkJ Sep 30 '10 at 16:23

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I remember learning VB6 almost only from MSDN (and some tutorials). I had a book on very basic programming with VB. Maybe you'll find some useful stuff at http://www.vbtutor.net.

Here are two books that seem to be good.

http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Microsoft-Visual-Basic-6-0/dp/0735605580/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1285855111&sr=1-3

http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Visual-Basic-6-0-Enhanced/dp/0619062045/ref=sr_1_13?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1285855111&sr=1-13

And here's the "Visual Basic 6 Resouce Center" (including links to VB6 MSDN).

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  • I remember that Francesco Balena's book (first amazon link above) was excellent when I read it. However the whole VB6 environment is obsolete and unsupported and I doubt it will get you very far especially with Vista/Seven. – renick Sep 30 '10 at 14:39
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    +1 Balena's book is excellent and well done for providing the link to MSDN. – MarkJ Sep 30 '10 at 16:12
  • @renick You're right that the Balena book is excellent. The IDE is unsupported, however people do [get it running on Vista and Windows 7](http://visualstudiomagazine.com/columns/article.aspx?editorialsid=2257). If the worst comes to the worst you can always run the IDE in a virtual machine. – MarkJ Sep 30 '10 at 16:25
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The Visual Basic 6 bible is:

Visual Basic 6 from the ground up

And you can still buy the software via Amazon for $40:

Visual Basic 6, Learner edition

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