Anybody still using VB6?

[ViperGTI]

I was on the Visual Studio feedback site and stumbled upon this request:
http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/f...g-back-classic-visual-basic-an-improved-versi
Interesting reading through some of the comments.
Thread was opened in December and people seem to be adding comments a couple of times a week since then.

Anybody here still using VB6 for legacy (or new) projects?

 

[Ancalagon]

I would rather code in assembler while blind folded with one arm strapped behind my back.

 

[biometrics]

According to this site it is still as popular as C#, PHP or Python.

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html

 

[Vengeful]

There are a few big companies that use it..

 

[ViperGTI]

According to this site it is still as popular as C#, PHP or Python.

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html

I noticed that as well.

The article from the original link is also an interesting read:
The Silent Majority: Why Visual Basic 6 Still Thrives

 

[TheMightyP]

I'm in Perth, working for an established mining sector company, and we still have plenty of systems running in VB6. Of course there is a mix with VB.Net, ASP.Net, Sharepoint and plenty of SQL server db stuff about too. And to be fair, I think we are in the minority as many companies spend money on upgrading their tech.

 

[The_Ogre]

Brings back fond memories. Was taught VB6 back in '99/2000 as my very first programming language

 

[Other Pineapple Smurf]

There are a few big companies that use it..

Got a friend who is paid by a major Telecoms company to maintain their VB6 code base.

 

[semaphore]

One of our credit systems are written in VB6. But i've just converted it to C#.

 

[BrokenRSA]

Heck, I'm still supporting an app written in VB5!

 

[ViperGTI]

From our side (should probably have gone first), our main app was developed on VB6 and finally after .NET 2 was released (.net 1.1 didn't impress), we did a rewrite on vb.net. Took about a year or two and at one stage had the VB6 app and .NET app running side by side for a couple of months. Since then we've upgraded to every .NET framework upgrade shortly after release... except for 4.5.

 

[iceman23]

still supporting vb6 and classic asp...