Visual Basic 6 and Visual Basic in Visual Studio - visual-studio

Is the code used in Visual Studio for Visual Basic the same as the code for Visual Basic 6.0?
The Visual Basic 6.0 IDE is no longer supported, so I can't get a hold of that version, but a tutoring pupil of mine is doing work in Studio Basic 6. Will I be able to help using Visual Studio or are they different coding languages?

The latest version of Visual Basic is Visual Basic 15.
Visual Basic 6.0 is not supported in Visual Studio:
Visual Studio 2010 does not provide tools for upgrading applications and projects from Visual Basic 6.0. If you want to upgrade your project from Visual Basic 6.0 to Visual Basic 2010, you can use the upgrade tools provided with earlier versions of Visual Studio and then upgrade the project again in Visual Studio 2010.
Source: How to: Upgrade a Project from Visual Basic 6.0

You can install visual studio 6, and can use visual basic 6,
I have installed in windows 10.
There is some problem during installing. I have removed mdac_typ.exe, and continued installing.

Visual Basic 6.0 is an old version of Visual Studio 2010.
The programming concept is the same, but the syntax is different, so if you learn on Visual Basic 6.0 you will understand the programming concept, but you only should know how to write the syntax of Visual Studio 2010, and it won't take much time, because there are a lot of things that are the same, and there some differences in function names and how to call it, but it isn't complex to know these differences. But in Visual Studio 2010 there some new functions and tools that help you more in creating the applications.

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Visual Studio products version compatibility (eg. express, ultimate)

I would like to use two scenarios:
In first I would like to mix Visual Studio Community and Visual Studio 2015 Professional.
In second scenario I would like to mix Visual Studio 2013 Express and Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate.
Assuming that seniors will use Ultimate/Professional and other devs will use Community/Express:
Is there any differences which one will create solution? Can I create solution using Ultimate and use it with Express without any loss for Ultimate and Express versions?
Is there any differences which one will compile solution? If Express compile whole solution, will be any performance loss in comparison to compilation made by Ultimate?
VS2013
I currently work in an environment where there are people using VS2013 Ultimate, VS2013 Pro, and VS2013 Express. This project has been going for over a year and we haven't had any issues with managing the solution or solution compilation.
VS2015
I don't have any experience with VS2015 in the scenarios outlined, but based on my experience with VS2013, I can't imagine there would be any differences for your 2 questions. FYI: You can find a comparison of the VS2015 products and features here
FWIW:
We actually had some people who were using VS2013 Express upgrade to VS2015 community and that is the only time we had an issue. I can't seem to find what the issue was; but it was something with the way VS2015 did things.

Does Visual Studio 2015 Community edition support Roslyn?

Can I use Roslyn and all its tooling in Visual Studio 2015 Community edition?
I am about to download the community edition and it's a big decision for me given that I have a single piece of hardware, my laptop, which I use for everything, and the only reason I am going to download 2015 is because I want to practice coding Roslyn, which is not available in the VS 2013 or earlier expression editions.
"Roslyn" is just the compiler platform in Visual Studio 2015. So yes, the Community edition has Roslyn.
We've been referring to it by its code name for so long that it's not really clear, but "Roslyn" is simply a rewrite of the C# and VB .NET compilers in managed code. On top of the compiler platform, you can write extensions to interact with code and the IDE as it's parsed in the form of quickfixes and refactorings.
The Visual Studio Community editions are nearly functionally identical to Visual Studio Professional, albeit under different license terms. This includes extension support.
The Roslyn GitHub page has awesome documentation to help you get your head wrapped around it.

Code Map Missing Visual Studio

We just switched over to VS 2013 and I heard that you're supposed to be able to
generate code maps for your entire application. Awesome feature indeed, that could
get new developers on our project up to speed.
Watched a couple of tutorials, but when I tried to just right click on a method
in the application, the 'Show on Code Map' context menu is missing. In fact, I
can't find anything in VS that has anything to do with Code Maps.
My version:
Visual Studio Premium 2013
I tried installing Modeling SDK for Microsoft Visual Studio 2013, but that didn't do anything.
Anyone got any ideas?
You need Visual Studio ULTIMATE to create Code Maps.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj739835.aspx
This has changed for Visual Studio 2015 and Visual Studio 2017:
The Enterprise Edition allows creating code maps.
The Community and Professional Editions can open diagrams generated in other Visual Studio editions in read-only mode.

How to execute the code of VB 6 from Visual Studio 2010, or I need to download VB 6?

Can anyone guide me ,whether is aany method to open a VB6 code from Visual Studio 2010?
Or i need to download VB 6 Compiler separately?(If yes, then please send the link from where i can download the VB6 or guide me from where i can download it?)
Visual Studio (starting with Visual Studio .NET 2002) does not compile Visual Basic 6.0 projects. You will need to legally obtain Visual Basic 6.0 to compile the code.
If you just need the Visual Basic 6.0 runtime, most modern Windows versions have it installed.
No you can't, you'll need a copy of Visual Basic 6. You can get it from MSDN.

Making an extension for multiple versions of Visual Studio

I have a feeling that the Visual Studio SDK is targeted heavily towards the version of Visual Studio it is created for, so I'm wondering how to do this in the best way possible. I currently only have Visual Studio 2008, but people using Visual Studio 2010 have begun wanting to use my tool as well, and I want to help them out. There were some using Visual Studio 2005 as well. Is there any way to do this without maintaining two (or three) different versions of the tool in different versions of Visual Studio?
This question is related, maybe it helps: Does Visual Studio 2010 have backward compatibility with visual studio 2008's addins?

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