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I have got some old sources written in Visual Basic. There are *.bas, *.cls, *.frm and *.vbp files. As I understand, vbp is a project file. But I cannot open it with my Visual Studio 2008.
What version of VS should I install to open *.vbp file? Google says it is Visual Studio 6, but I am not sure and I cannot find Visual Studio 6 for downloading. Is there any publicly available free edition of Visual Studio 6 with Visual Basic?
Thanks.
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Right click on the file and select "Open With" and select your visual studio program. It may need to be converted and if so, it will prompt you to convert the project. Thanks!
In the Visual Studio.NET environment, select File | New | Project from the menu. Select Visual Basic on the left and then Console Application on the right.
Step 1: Press Ctrl + Shift + S on the keyboard, Or click File>Save As on the notepad window, this will open up a Save As dialog window asking where to save the current notepad document. Step 2: Now write any file name of your choice for this notepad document but make sure you write . vbs as its extension.
VBP files are project files that store all kinds of information needed by Visual Studio. The information is saved in plain text and contains references to sources needed by the project. This includes forms, class modules, and source code files.
vbp is indeed a VB 5/6 Project File.
VS6/VB5/VB6 are not free, so if you want to build the project you will need to spend $5 on ebay.
The VB5 Control Creation Edition (build COM components only) was the only free version MS released.
Older versions of VS.net included a way to import a VBP and upgrade it to VB.NET, but YMMV (significantly).
Edit; If you just want to look at the source/project structure all the files except .frx are plain ascii.
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If you have an MSDN subscription, then VB6 is available as a free download. Otherwise try ebay like Alex suggests, but it usually costs significantly more than $5.
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