{"id":300,"date":"2005-03-18T13:15:05","date_gmt":"2005-03-18T19:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jameskovacs.com\/2005\/03\/18\/Classic+VB+Petitions"},"modified":"2005-03-18T13:15:05","modified_gmt":"2005-03-18T19:15:05","slug":"classic-vb-petitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/2005\/03\/18\/classic-vb-petitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Classic VB petitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a lot of buzz around the blogsphere lately about Microsoft ending support for VB6. No, VB.NET isn&#8217;t a drop-in replacement. At the same time, the VB6 run-time isn&#8217;t going to self-destruct at the end of the month and the VB6&nbsp;development environment will continue to compile code. Life will be as it always has been for VB6, except you can&#8217;t call Microsoft Technical Support.&nbsp;And let&#8217;s be honest, how many times have you actually done that? Here&#8217;s the <A href=\"http:\/\/classicvb.org\/petition\/\">original petition<\/A>&nbsp;and an amusing <A href=\"http:\/\/www.atrevido.net\/blog\/PermaLink.aspx?guid=a1db3a46-466b-440b-ad71-55b13e2feb75\">counter-petition<\/A>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a lot of buzz around the blogsphere lately about Microsoft ending support for VB6. No, VB.NET isn&#8217;t a drop-in replacement. At the same time, the VB6 run-time isn&#8217;t going to self-destruct at the end of the month and the VB6&nbsp;development environment will continue to compile code. Life will be as it always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameskovacs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}