Re: When was visual basic axed?

"Dennis Landi" wrote:

Can someone tell me what date (Month/Year) Visual Basic was officially no longer supported by MS?

That's not a question that has a simple answer. For instance Microsoft just extended the support of the VB6 runtime by committing to lifetime support of it it on Vista. They have also committed to insuring that the VB6 IDE will run of Vista but didn't extend it's support beyond 2008.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vbrun/ms788708.aspx

"the Visual Basic 6.0 runtime will be supported for the full lifetime of Windows Vista, which is five years of mainstream support followed by five years of extended support"

"Shipping Visual Basic 6.0 binaries on Windows Vista does not change the support policy for the Visual Basic 6.0 IDE or Visual Studio 6.0 as a whole. Those products will move out of extended support in April 8, 2008. Further details on the support policy for the Visual Basic 6.0 and Visual Studio 6.0 products can be found at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/support/lifecycle/. Details on the support lifecycle of Microsoft products can be found at http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifepolicy. As a part of this support lifecycle, Microsoft will continue to support the Visual Basic 6.0 runtime on Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 for the support lifetime of those operating systems. This means, for example, that the Visual Basic 6.0 runtime will be supported on Windows Server 2003 until June, 2008 for Mainstream Support and June, 2013 for Extended Support. For more details on the support lifecycle or to find out about additional support options, please visit our support page at http://www.microsoft.com/support.";


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