"Attibute" in VB 6

[cBarry263]

Guys,
I'm converting a VB 6 app to VB.NET, howerver the VB 6 code has some modules that say "BEGIN" and "END" at the top, and they also have an "ATTRIBUTE" at the top. I have never seen this before, could someone explain what these are used for and what their equivilant would be in .NET?

 

[kulrom]

give me an example in VB6 and i'll try to explain that for you !

 

[cBarry263]

VERSION 1.0 CLASS
BEGIN
MultiUse = -1 'True
Persistable = 0 'NotPersistable
DataBindingBehavior = 0 'vbNone
DataSourceBehavior = 0 'vbNone
MTSTransactionMode = 0 'NotAnMTSObject
END
Attribute VB_Name = "ODBCapi"
Attribute VB_GlobalNameSpace = False
Attribute VB_Creatable = True
Attribute VB_PredeclaredId = False
Attribute VB_Exposed = False

 

[cBarry263]

Anyone?? I can't seem to find anything about this stuff.

 

[JuggaloBrotha]

in .net the "Standard" is to save data like that as xml files, so i would guess that xml is the equivalent of the vb6 attribute

but for vb 1 through 6, MS used the keywords Begin and End to specify segments when saving large amounts of data (like a program project) it's a thing of the past now

 

[cBarry263]

When you say object, do you mean it as in OOP?

 

[JuggaloBrotha]

there are several xml readers (objects) that you can use, look at the System.IO namespace to start