The Myth of Visual Basic (VB 6) Migration / Upgrade

Aberdeen Group recognizes ArtinSoft as a key player in the VB 6 migration industry

Fzoufaly — Fri, 08 May 2009 22:56:26 GMT

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...(read more)

Visual Basic migratioon now faster than ever!

Fzoufaly — Wed, 06 May 2009 20:44:00 GMT

Today ArtinSoft launched the Visual Basic Upgrade Companion 3.0 both for our Enterprise and Developer Editions. This latest release of the best (I am biased!) Visual Basic migration tool in the world is focused on reducing the total effort of a migration...(read more)

Learn about low-cost and low-risk migration options with Avanade and ArtinSoft

Fzoufaly — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:48:37 GMT

Technorati Tags: Visual Basic Migration , Application Renewal , VB6 On Wednesday April 15th 2009 Avanade and ArtinSoft will host a webinar on how to quickly and cost effectively renew your Visual Basic 6 applications. Here’s an excerpt from the invitation...(read more)

Large Companies, Successful VB6 Migrations

Fzoufaly — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:51:41 GMT

Here is a summary of some recent case studies that we have produced with our customers. The message is common: Visual Basic 6 to C# migrations are an excellent alternative that saves time and money when you need to move your application to .NET...(read more)

I've decided to move away from VB6. Now What?

Fzoufaly — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 22:09:00 GMT

At some point in time companies decide they want to leave a certain platform. Let’s not focus on the reasons why they decide to move but on HOW to move instead. Companies reach the decision to move on their own timetable. Once you have decided that you...(read more)

How to move billions of lines of code from VB6

Fzoufaly — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:56:00 GMT

Danish magazine Version2 published an interesting article last week on VB6 migrations: http://www.version2.dk/artikel/9908-saadan-flyttes-milliarder-af-kodelinjer-fra-vb6#forum_post_anchor . Microsoft is finally waving goodbye to Visual Basic Version...(read more)

More than 800k lines of ISVs code successfully migrated using the ArtinSoft Visual Basic Companion

Fzoufaly — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:20:00 GMT

ArtinSoft recently published a number of case studies of Visual Basic migrations for ISVs. The projects were successful both from the technical as well as the economical perspective. If you are an ISV and you are considering an evolution of your application...(read more)

VB6 Runtime WILL be supported on Windows 7 but no plans to support it on future version of windows.

Fzoufaly — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:53:00 GMT

I spoke to Paul Yuknewicz who is a Program Manager on the Microsoft Visual Basic team and who is quite involved with everything related to VB6 and its migration process. Paul said and I quote: "VB6 runtime will be shipping and supported as a part...(read more)

Is the grass greener while doing green-field development?

Fzoufaly — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:57:00 GMT

Milan Negovan in his blog aspnetresources recently published an excerpt of Michael Feathers' book Working Effectively with Legacy Code . I liked the excerpt so much and I believe that it is so pertinent to the topic of my blog that I also will reproduce...(read more)

Aggiorno Beta2 is out!

Fzoufaly — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:49:00 GMT

How did ArtinSoft got into producing Aggiorno ( www.aggiorno.com )? Well after more than 15 years in the software migration market we learned a few things and we are convinced that developers want to increase their productivity and that automatic programming...(read more)

ASP.NET & Web Standards

Fzoufaly — Fri, 09 May 2008 22:38:00 GMT

Aggiorno is an add-in for Visual Studio 2005/2008 that can swallow horrible non-validating markup and help you make an ASP.NET site web standards compliant with little effort. With Aggiorno web developers can improve their ASP.NET or HTML sites by making...(read more)

VB Runtime supported in next Windows

Fzoufaly — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:44:00 GMT

Here is an excerpt from an article that Greg DeMichillie wrote on Directions on Microsoft April Edition: "The planned follow-on release to Windows Vista, code-named Windows 7, will not include the Visual Basic 6.0 (VB 6) runtime libraries, Microsoft...(read more)

April 8th 2008 and the end of Visual Basic 6 Support

Fzoufaly — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:04:00 GMT

The date has arrived Visual Basic 6 leaves Extended support today.

Rob Helm recently wrote on "Directions on Microsoft": "Some organizations will let support lapse on the VB6 development environment, gambling that any serious problems in the VB6 environment has already been discovered" Additionally, Rob adds: "... organizations remaining loyal to VB6 applications will have to make increasingly heroic efforts to keep those applications running as their IT environments change."

Organizations that GAMBLE with their business continuity, IT professionals that need to make HEROIC efforts to keep applications running! Don't you believe that maintaining an IT organization supporting a business is already enough of an effort to add to the mix unsupported applications?

Do you plan to be a GAMBLING HERO or is it about time to consider ways out of Visual Basic 6?

Well this might be just the right time. ArtinSoft is about to release a new version of the Visual Basic Upgrade companion. The effort required to migrate has been reduced even further and it now makes more sense than ever to automatically upgrade your applications to C# or VB.NET.

Have you been procrastinating the decision to move? Act now!!

Aggiorno is coming out of stealth mode: www.aggiorno.com

Fzoufaly — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:47:00 GMT

Happy 2008!

During last year, ArtinSoft has also been working on a new product that we called Aggiorno ( www.aggiorno.com ). Aggiorno is a Visual Studio add-in designed to increase the productivity of web developers. Aggiorno helps developers with a broad range of topics like web standards, SEO (Search Engine Optimization), Accessibility, XHTML, ASP.NET, etc.

If you want to know more about aggiorno you can visit our new web site or the official blog: www.aggiorno.com\blog .

In this blog, I will continue to discuss Visual Basic Upgrades and its implications. By the way, customers are increasingly getting more excited about the speed and safety of migrations vs rewrites.

2008 is the final warning to move VB6 applications to .NET

Fzoufaly — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 17:51:00 GMT

Rob Helm, director of research at Directions on Microsoft, recently answered the question "Do the new releases of the Microsoft platform have an impact on the issue of upgrading applications from Visual Basic 6 to Visual Basic .NET?" with the quote that is the title of this post.

He said that the new platform updates really do not have an impact and that you should not wait any longer to move. He emphasized that after the end of support date for VB6 the support will only be through a special support contract with Microsoft that typically is "very onerous" and increasing every year.

Additionally, Rob Helm mentioned something that I had not noticed. Did you know the name of Visual Basic .NET is now officially only "Visual Basic"? Definetely another sign pointing at the future!