Hi All
I have a POS system written in VB6 that is installed at quite a few clients, recently I decided to re-write the application in VB.NET 2012. The re-write is going well except for printing to network receipt printers. This has changed massively in DOT NET as I use ESC/POS commands and send text directly to the printer, which doesn't seem to be supported in .NET. So to work around this I have created a custom VB6 .DLL which I have referenced in the VB.NET application to handle all the receipt and kitchen printer routines and this seems to work beautifully. My question really is, does anyone foresee a problem in doing it this way ? besides the obvious of having to maintain two sets of code. Would I run into any problems installing on windows 8 and using a VB6 .DLL ?
All opinions would be much appreciated.
Thanks
AJ
I have a POS system written in VB6 that is installed at quite a few clients, recently I decided to re-write the application in VB.NET 2012. The re-write is going well except for printing to network receipt printers. This has changed massively in DOT NET as I use ESC/POS commands and send text directly to the printer, which doesn't seem to be supported in .NET. So to work around this I have created a custom VB6 .DLL which I have referenced in the VB.NET application to handle all the receipt and kitchen printer routines and this seems to work beautifully. My question really is, does anyone foresee a problem in doing it this way ? besides the obvious of having to maintain two sets of code. Would I run into any problems installing on windows 8 and using a VB6 .DLL ?
All opinions would be much appreciated.
Thanks
AJ