Many developers believe that if they are writing code in Visual Basic® 6.0, the vast world of the Microsoft® .NET Framework is off limits to them. But in this article, I’ll prove that isn’t true. I’ll show how you can easily leverage anything in the .NET Framework 2.0 from existing Visual Basic 6.0 applications through a technique known as Visual Basic Fusion. Make no mistake, I’m advocating nothing less than leaving some of your applications in Visual Basic 6.0. However, there’s no reason that the door to the .NET Framework class library must remain locked just because you choose not to upgrade to Visual Basic 2005.
