Application Compatibility: Moving from Visual Studio 6.0

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Many of the small utilities and other programs that I worked with in Visual Studio 6.0 moved  Visual Studio .NET without too many problems. Unfortunately, I can't say the same of the database applications I created with Visual Studio 6.0. Moving these older applications to a clean machine with Visual Studio .NET meant a lot of additional work. It also seems like Microsoft went out of its way to ensure you'd pay a big price to use Visual C++ .NET with your old database applications. The following sections provide you with some tips on fixing common problems with older database applications.