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		MichaelGG on June 8, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Silent Majority: Why Visual Basic 6 Still Thri... "Visual Basic 6 first shipped in 1998, so its apps will have at least 24 years of supported lifetime. Contrast that with the Microsoft .NET Framework 1.0 (2002), which is incompatible with Windows 7 (2009)." Somewhat misleading, as the .NET framework is still supported and will run older binaries.

gouranga on June 8, 2012 [–]

.Net 1.0 code will run quite happily on the latest framework.

We just pulled one of our apps up to .Net 4.0 and it took about 5 minutes. Not a small one either: 350kloc.

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