When will Microsoft officially pull the plug on technical support for Visual Basic 6.0?
As of March 2005, Microsoft ended the mainstream phase of support for Visual Basic 6.0, and entered into a period of extended phase support. The current extended phase support is available until March 2008, at which point Visual Basic 6.0 will no longer be supported. Free support for Visual Basic 6.0 is no longer available. During the extended phase, customers can still receive professional product support for Visual Basic 6.0 through telephone and online incident support channels on a per-incident fee basis or through Premier Support. Similarly, critical updates and hotfixes are only available for a fee during the extended phase.
