Original User: natalie.pieper
Dear ESRI Team,
Existing VB6 Extensions will not longer be supported?!
We develop on ArcGIS Desktop since V8.1 and still have a lot of tools and older products on VB6.
In former documentation and all 9.4 announcements, ESRI told us that there will be no more SDK for VB6. So far, so good... that's understandable and OK.
So it was clear for us that it's strongly recommanded to migrate those of our extensions to VB.NET, that are in maintenance and that are developed on further. That's OK, we do that step by step.
But what about all the small extensions and tools, that work fine until now? In former documentation you told us, that we are "strongly encouraged to mígrate to .NET", not that we are "forced" to to that.
Of course, we will do that step by step for every product that will be developed further. But all at one time, just to be available on ArcGIS 9.4?
We have a large number of older extensions and tools that work fine. No one needs changes in that tools - and no one wants to pay for migrating them to .NET.
Is it really policy of ESRI that NO existing VB6 extensions will be installable on ArcGIS 9.4?
I tried to register some vb6 dll's by ESRIRegasm. exe, but this didn't work, as user 164549 described. Not even with parameter /c . Does this really only works for C++???