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Back when it was first announced I made a couple of posts about Windows 7 XP Mode. Now that I’ve been using almost every day for the past few months, I wanted to revisit the topic and write about my hands-on impressions. In this post I’ll show how applications that run under XP Mode integrate with the regular Windows 7 environment.
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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 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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Yesterday I blogged about Windows 7’s XP Compatibility Mode, and have some additional pieces of information that I consider interesting if you are considering using it in the future: not all CPUs would be able to use XP compatibility mode, adds complexity to the deployment process, and may give an inconsistent experience. ...
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I know this is completely off-topic to what I normally blog about, but I’ve been having problems this past couple of days when trying to checkout a document from SharePoint using Internet Explorer 7. It crashes every single time – which has been a very frustrating experience, to say the least. I have no idea what caused it to (mis)behave this way. Anyway, turns out the fix was incredibly easy...
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As a Visual Basic 6.0 developer you may want to become yourself familiar with the .NET platform before putting it into production (and making the corresponding investments). In this blog post I give some pointers to commonly used resources that can help you try out the platform....
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Microsoft's Patterns & Practices group released last week a new version of the Application Architecture Guide. This book provides you with the best practices in the design of .NET applications....
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A quick fix to help troubleshoot error 2869 when installing the VBUC 2.0....
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If you're still waiting to upgrade your VB6 applications to the .NET Framework, maybe the Interop Toolkit will help you to make a decision and get started with the process....
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How to use two relatively obscure command line tools to remotely close a Terminal Services session....
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A quick post to tell everyone that the day finally came: Windows Server 2008 was released today. it includes two technologies in particular that I think will be revolutionary: Hyper-V and RemoteApp....
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Now that Visual Studio 2008 is available, you might wonder what will happen with the Visual Studio 2005 projects generated with the current version of the VB Upgrade Companion (VBUC). For starters, it is worth mentioning that Visual Studio 2008 fully supports projects created in the .NET Framework 2.0, like the ones generated with the VBUC. The newer version of the .NET Framework (3.0, shipped with Vista, and 3.5, shipped with VS2008) keep the same core version of the CLR (2.0) as before, with very few minor changes. There are no compatibility or breaking changes like when upgrading from versions 1.1 to 2.0 of the .NET Framework.
When you open a VS2005 project in VS2008, you are greeted with the new Visual Studio Conversion Wizard
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A large percentage of the work I do here at ArtinSoft is related to what we call Ready programs. The Ready program is part of the Ready-Set-Go methodology – a migration project methodology developed here at ArtinSoft that has given us great results. The...
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Sometimes you need to extract one file from an MSI file. A typical example is when you need just one DLL in order to make a project compile, but in order to get it you need to download and install a complete application. The ideal solution is to get the...
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Recently I kept getting this error when trying to install SQL Server 2005 Express Edition: An installation package for the product Microsoft SQL Server Native Client cannot be found. Try the installation again using a valid copy of the installation package...
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