VS.NET and VS6

[ozzie123]

Assalamu'alaikum,

I have a few question about VS.NET and VS6:
I'm aware that not many user have the VS.NET library (at least not as much as VS6). This makes me wanted to use VS6 to compile my code, the problem is, I already have .NET already (I was using VS6 in my college) and I cannot afford VS6 currently.

Can I programm using VS.NET but with VS6 language (not using .NET features)? If I can, how? I cannot find any application shell (you know, where we can edit how our programms look like)...

Wassalam
PS: Thanks for the help

[maximiseit]

You don't have to have the VS.NET / VS. You can write the webpage, program even in node pad and use command line compiler and linker (which is free as far as I know).

The .NET offers a managed C++ projects.

[ozzie123]

Yes VS.NET offers a managed project (I believe it's using .NET library). And unmanaged project (I think this is pretty similiar with VS6? -- the only problem is... how do I access application shell??)

I wish I could write a programme in notepad yet :P I'm not that advanced and still learning :D

[ibrahim34]

Assalam Alyekum ,

I dont know VS but I know that VS C++ 6 and VS c++ 7 (.NET) dont use the same run time library ( msvcrt.dll / msvcr71.dll) , to avoid the problem you need to distribute the .net runtime dll with your application to be sure that your code can run correctly.