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VB6 was never free as far as I can remember. You could either buy it as part of Visual Studio (including VC++) or you could buy it standalone (not sure if that was earlier versions though).
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Only the hooky versions were free 
You had to buy a licence for the IDE - per user OR corporate
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CHill60 wrote: VB6 was expensive
What? I got the entire VS 6.0 for $188 (student price) back in '99...fantastic ROI...paid for itself the first week!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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I can see how large legacy VB6 code-bases would continue to be retained as-is, because re-writing it into a managed framework is a huge ask. What I don't get it why new code would ever get written in VB6, with the lack of support, limited availability of engineers who've used it, etc.
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^^ What Nish said 
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The new VB6 code happens when those large legacy apps need minor updates or changes. At any given point, it's a lot less work to add a bit of code to the existing application than to do a re-write. And so new VB6 code continues to be written, year after year.
I wouldn't be surprised if there's some poor soul in 2035 who is still plugging away making updates and additions to a legacy VB6 app. Although at that point, such a person might be able to charge some hefty consulting rates for working in VB6. So perhaps this person would more more of a tortured soul than a poor soul...
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A tortured soul billing $300/hour sounds pretty doable to me. 
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If VB6 is truly unsupported at this point, then you just need one serious-enough exploit in the runtime to end its use.
OTOH:
- See Windows XP
- You'd hope those systems still in production and relying on it aren't connected to the internet in any way, shape or form - mitigating that problem
- Aren't store apps supposed to be running in a completely sandboxed environment?
OTOH (yeah, that'd be a third hand I guess):
- Despite all this, I have no doubt there's plenty of VB6 exploits being abused right now, and will continue for the foreseeable future
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The extent of damage would be minimal since VB6 is mostly used for desktop UI apps.
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Doesn't matter what the app is used for, if you can crash an app and control the return address, you have a way to run any native code of your choosing.
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Yeah, on an end user's desktop. Minimal damage.
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alang_icon wrote: Couldn't see this mentioned anywhere.
have you tried looking in the soapbox or weird and wonderful? That's where this story would belong. /trollface
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Depressed shipment heading for your PC? (8)
I reminded him at 08:30, I reminded him at 10:10 ... 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Oops sorry Paul - no excuse but I didn't get the reminders  - I suppose I better not answer todays 
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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I'm probably in your Junk folder!
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Or maybe his ‘Nag’ folder?
At least you will have his wife’s emails to keep yours company.
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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I'm going to regret this, but download.
Depressed - down
Shipment - load
Andy B
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Why would you regret it - it's right, and you won!
For your prize, you are up tomorrow. 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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And he didn't make you wait until 12:59:59 and then not post
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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In my defense, I didn't know the answer until Richard posted the Infinite Monkeys bit - and then you challenged me to not post the solution, so I didn't! 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Hi All,
Operation cluster ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) now use the company's Share Point Server as per orders from above. I don't know if it's standard share point to have a link in a document to the document you want but that is the way it's set up. It would be great if the link pointed toward a document. I click them and get taken to another copy of the same thing...
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So it's a website built using Word Documents instead of HTML Documents?
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It appears to be, it's a viper pit I don't want to venture into... 
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I made a meme for my desk - Indiana Jones with the cobra rearing in front of him & the words Sharepoint why does it have to be Sharepoint. I'll post a link if I can find the electronic copy.
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