{"id":3707,"date":"2013-07-29T09:12:06","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T01:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vbtutor.net\/?p=3707"},"modified":"2015-05-07T20:10:02","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T12:10:02","slug":"why-visual-basic-6-still-popular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vbtutor.net\/index.php\/2013\/07\/29\/why-visual-basic-6-still-popular\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Visual Basic 6 Still Popular?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though Visual Basic has evolved into a full fledged OOP language, Visual Basic 6 is still surviving and vastly popular. Due to its vast popularity among the VB programmers, Microsoft is till supporting this particularly version of programming language by extended \u201cIt Just Works\u201d compatibility for Visual Basic 6 in Windows 8. Our analytic too noticed that many of our visitors preferred browsing our Visual Basic 6 tutorial. I think some of the reasons are its ease of usage, gentle learning curve, less time consuming and more. Here  are some reasons offered by <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/magazine\/jj133828.aspx\">David Platt<\/a>, interesting read. We would also like to hear from you whether you prefer Visual Basic 6 or not and why? Please offer your opinions for this post, thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though Visual Basic has evolved into a full fledged OOP language, Visual Basic 6 is still surviving and vastly popular. Due to its vast popularity among the VB programmers, Microsoft is till supporting this particularly version of programming language by extended \u201cIt Just Works\u201d compatibility for Visual Basic 6 in Windows 8. Our analytic too &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vbtutor.net\/index.php\/2013\/07\/29\/why-visual-basic-6-still-popular\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why Visual Basic 6 Still Popular?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23013,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why Visual Basic 6 Still Popular? - Learn Visual Basic Programming \u2013 VB.NET, VBA &amp; Classic VB<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This article discuss the popularity of Visual Basic 6\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vbtutor.net\/index.php\/2013\/07\/29\/why-visual-basic-6-still-popular\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why Visual Basic 6 Still Popular? - Learn Visual Basic Programming \u2013 VB.NET, VBA &amp; Classic VB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This article discuss the popularity of Visual Basic 6\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.vbtutor.net\/index.php\/2013\/07\/29\/why-visual-basic-6-still-popular\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Learn Visual Basic Programming \u2013 VB.NET, VBA &amp; Classic VB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Vbtutor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-07-29T01:12:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2015-05-07T12:10:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Liew Voon Kiong\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@liewvk\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@liewvk\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Liew Voon Kiong\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.vbtutor.net\/index.php\/2013\/07\/29\/why-visual-basic-6-still-popular\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.vbtutor.net\/index.php\/2013\/07\/29\/why-visual-basic-6-still-popular\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Liew Voon Kiong\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.vbtutor.net\/#\/schema\/person\/01c0e3de22b7692f291440df0ef6601d\"},\"headline\":\"Why Visual Basic 6 Still Popular?\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-07-29T01:12:06+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-05-07T12:10:02+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.vbtutor.net\/index.php\/2013\/07\/29\/why-visual-basic-6-still-popular\/\"},\"wordCount\":123,\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.vbtutor.net\/index.php\/2013\/07\/29\/why-visual-basic-6-still-popular\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.vbtutor.net\/index.php\/2013\/07\/29\/why-visual-basic-6-still-popular\/\",\"name\":\"Why Visual Basic 6 Still Popular? - Learn Visual Basic Programming \u2013 VB.NET, VBA &amp; Classic VB\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.vbtutor.net\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2013-07-29T01:12:06+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-05-07T12:10:02+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.vbtutor.net\/#\/schema\/person\/01c0e3de22b7692f291440df0ef6601d\"},\"description\":\"This article discuss the popularity of Visual Basic 6\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.vbtutor.net\/index.php\/2013\/07\/29\/why-visual-basic-6-still-popular\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.vbtutor.net\/index.php\/2013\/07\/29\/why-visual-basic-6-still-popular\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.vbtutor.net\/index.php\/2013\/07\/29\/why-visual-basic-6-still-popular\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.vbtutor.net\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Why Visual Basic 6 Still Popular?\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.vbtutor.net\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.vbtutor.net\/\",\"name\":\"Learn Visual Basic Programming \u2013 VB.NET, VBA &amp; Classic VB\",\"description\":\"Start learning Visual Basic from beginner to advanced. 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