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In the last couple of months we’ve done several significant updates to the website that I think are worth commenting about, including a completely new website with information useful for your migration projects, a revamped services offering including an online project ballpark calculator, and the ability to purchase a license of the VBUC online....
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Here is a quick way to know if a binary file (*.exe, *.dll, *.ocx, …) has a dependency on the Visual Basic 6.0 Runtime. If you are concerned about the VB6.0 runtime not being supported after Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7, this is a trick that can help you decide whether to keep a particular third party ActiveX component in your application through COM Interop after migrating to the .NET Framework or to start looking for a replacement in case the runtime is no longer available (and thus the component will no longer work)....
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This past couple of week I’ve been contacted by a couple of developers concerned with Microsoft’s decision to stop supporting the Visual Basic 6.0 IDE, but to continue support for the Visual Basic runtime and some support libraries in Windows 7 and 2008. This made me think about revisiting the topic with new information and changes since February...
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This is a very simple configuration option that can really help you speed up the process of reviewing all migration EWIs (Errors, Warnings and Issues) when working with migrated code. In Visual Studio, you can use the Task List panel to keep track of a list of items (tasks) you need to go through. This Task List can be configured so that it sto show migration EWIs...
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JRockIt is an interesting Java Virtual Machine. I really admire the technology used in it. Well following Mike’s post about Memory Leaks in Coldfusion http://www.schierberl.com/cfblog/index.cfm/2006/10/12/ColdFusion_memoryLeak_profiler I was trying to...
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Someone recently made me remind an old technology called DDE . “Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) is a technology for communication between multiple applications under Microsoft Windows or OS/2 ” “The primary function of DDE is to allow Windows applications...
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How can I migrate property pages? Well that is a common question when migrating VB6 Activex controls. Property Pages where commonly used in VB6 to provide a mechanism for your user controls to edit values. .NET provides even more mechanisms for editing...
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Some time ago Jose Aguilar had blogged about the Interesting Behavior of TabIndex in Migrated Applications . As he explained at the time there are functional differences between the TabIndex behaviour in VB6 If you look at Figure1. Figure 1. This image...
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Recently I discovered in MSDN a great addition, a must to for all C# developers. CodeRush Express. This product was build by DevExpress and it just make it perfect your experience with Visual Studio. For example finding symbols or files, tabbing...
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Well recently Kingsley has point me to a lot of useful links to improve the ExtendedWebBrowser. However he found another detail. When in Javascript you do something like a: window . open(‘url’,’window’,’width=200;height=300’); Those width and height settings...
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I had previously posted an extended version of the WebBrowser Control. This code posted in Opening Popup in a NewWindow and NewWindow2 Events in the C# WebBrowserControl , dealt with some issues when you want to have a form with a WebBrowser and in the...
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If you have created any schedule jobs or you just need to see what jobs are available in a server you use the dba_jobs table. The following links provides more details about this view: http://www.praetoriate.com/data_dictionary/dd_dba_jobs.htm
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More and more companies are deciding to migrate their portfolio of Visual Basic 6.0 applications using a Migration Factory Model where knowledge, tools, methodologies and resources are reused. A successful Visual Basic 6.0 migration to .NET in a migration...
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The business-oriented newspaper, El Financiero, just published an article talking about the advantages of performing a migration instead of a manual rewrite. ...
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Technorati Tags: Visual Basic 6 Migration VB6 to .NET VB 6 to C# Aberdeen Group recently published a report titled “ Migrating from VB6 to .NET: The challenge of Software Agility in a Volatile Economy ”. The report contains a good summary of the status...
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