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I recently found this interesting list of questions on the Datatek Inc. website. I enjoyed answering them and I want to share ArtinSoft’s answers. Go ahead and judge for yourself if ArtinSoft is the right partner for your VB6 migration projects. Q1 :...
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Paul Yuknewicz, Senior Program Manager on the VB Team, and myself will be presenting a webcast on upgrading VB6.0 applications to Visual Studio 2010, this Thursday at 9am PST....
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In VB6 when you have an ActiveX Library it was very important to use the BinaryCompatibility setting to make sure that your applications did not break after a change. So let’s first introduce what is binary compatibility and how to accomplish that in...
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Either if you migrate your application from VB6 to C# or if you develop a new application in C# something you end up with cases where you need to use your classes in legacy apps. Some of them could have been written in VB6 or could even be VBA macros...
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I love sharepoint and it is very nice and cool. We use it a lot to share information with our clients. But every know and then when I try to open or check out a document IE just crashes. So I got tired of it and decided to put an end to that annoyance...
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Sometimes when you do a migration, you still need to “Interop” with legacy applications. Normally this interop is done thru COM and .NET assemblies can be easily registered with COM. However the devil is in the details, and there are always subtle details...
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Microsoft has decided that .hlp files are not the best option for your help files. And you will probably receive an error message like: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917607 If you still want to run your .hlp help files you still can look for a WinHelp...
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When a VB6 COM+ Component is migrated to a ServiceComponent, you might want to take advantage of the Configuration files of .NET to specify your connection strings and other important information. So where should your App.Config go. There is a slight...
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Channel 9 video of my coworker Esteban Brenes doing a brief demonstration of the Visual Basic Upgrade Companion, version 4.0....
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I am proud to announce that today ArtinSoft released version 4.0 Beta of its flagship product the Visual Basic Upgrade Companion. This new release once more collects our learnings from migrating millions and millions of lines of code from Visual Basic...
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We are very happy to announce the Visual Basic Upgrade Companion 4.0 Beta. You can now download a trial from the Trial Request page. While we complete beta testing, we’ll have both version 3.0 (current release version) and the 4.0 Beta available for download....
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AutoCAD 2010 will not be supporting VBA . Quoting “If you utilize VBA macros in your work environment, they will no longer work unless the VBA module is installed on your system. “ “When you run a command that requires VBA, a message dialog box will be...
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In it March issue, Visual Studio Magazine published an in-depth article about legacy migrations called “Unlocking Legacy Code”. This article talks about the challenges faced by companies migrating from Visual Basic 6.0 to .NET, the drivers behind these migrations and the pros and cons of using an automated migration solution....
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One very common requirement for migration projects is to adapt certain error handling patterns used in a customer’s Visual Basic 6.0 code to the structured error handling provided by .NET, cleaning up the code, improving its maintainability, and, whenever possible, complying with .NET best practices. ...
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During a migration from a FlexGrid to a DataGridView, we encountered a situation where the HorizontalScrollBar did not show. I found many suggestions like setting a MinimumColWidth value for all columns, etc. But it wasn’t until my friend Jesus added...
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