The myths about Visual Basic migration make it easy to play the “blame” game instead of trying to understand the issue. Often, in making the wrong assumptions, we “write off” some alternatives without even considering them. However, with training, support from automatic migration products and the use of a comprehensive migration methodology, the migration is not only possible using a fraction of the resources required for a rewrite, but it is also the right choice to reduce the Total Cost of Operation and prepare applications to maximize their future business value.

June 2005 - Posts

• More on VBA migrations

  Here is another article that shows how to do migrations of VBA code for Office to .NET and VSTO (Visual Studio Tools for Office).  I highly recommend reading the article: http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/odc_vsto2005_ta/html/OfficeVSTOExcelVBAMigration.asp This is another proof point around the viability of automated Visual Basic Migrations. Read on... Posted Jun 09 2005, 03:24 PM by Fzoufaly with no comments

• Birds of Feather session at TechEd

  During Tech Ed in Orlando next week there will be a session on migrating VB6 to VB.NET.  If you are going to Tech Ed and reading this BLOG you will probably find it very interesting.  Details can be found here: http://weblogs.asp.net/kpleas/archive/2005/06/01/410028.aspx  Tuesday night from 6:30 to 7:30 Cheers!   Posted Jun 01 2005, 09:10 PM by Fzoufaly with no comments