Virtualization and Visual Basic 6.0 applications
There may be some circumstances where upgrading a VB6 application is not feasible, for example it may rely on a control that simply does not work in the target operating system. I came across a couple of articles on MSDN that discussed the ways that virtualisation technologies can be applied to this problem. There are three basic approaches:
- Run all, or in a virtual machine. Virtual PC, Virtual Server or Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 are all possibilities.
- Use Terminal Services to give end users access to the application.
- Use Microsoft Application Virtualization (formally Softgrid) to virtualize a part of the application.
Check out these links:
- Using Virtualization to Preserve a Visual Basic 6.0 Client-Server Application
- Visual Basic 6.0 Application Availability with Microsoft Virtualization
- Microsoft Application Virtualization
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- Anonymous
June 08, 2009
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