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• VBUC 2.0 Feature Spotlight: Migration Profiles

  One of the new features of the Visual Basic Upgrade Companion version 2.0 is the support for Migration Profiles. These profiles give you control over which translations to use for a particular migration, improving the quality of the generated code and applying only the conversions desired (for example, for specific third party components). ... Posted Apr 08 2008, 02:39 PM by Jaguilar with | with no comments Filed under: VBUC, VBUC2.0

• Visual Basic Upgrade Companion 2.0 - The tool you have been waiting for

  The Visual Basic Upgrade Companion version 2.0 was released today! The VBUC2.0 is a considerable improvement over previous versions of the Companion.... Posted Apr 07 2008, 10:25 PM by Jaguilar with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: News, VBUC, VBUC2.0

• So Long VB6, and Thanks for all the Fish

  I may be a little late to the obituary, but VB6 support is finally, officially, irrefutably gone. The IDE, as stated in Microsoft's Product Life-Cycle guidelines, "... will no longer be supported starting March 2008". We will miss you VB6...... Posted Apr 07 2008, 06:41 PM by Jaguilar with | with no comments Filed under: ArtinSoft, VBUC

• Upcoming VB Webcasts

  Beth Massi, Program Manager on the Visual Studio Community Team, will be doing a series of webcasts on Visual Basic 9. They will be mostly about the new features of VB9, including one about LINQ in VB that I am particularly interested in. Another one of them deals specifically with Visual Basic 6.0 to .NET migrations, called Live From Redmond: Migrating Your Visual Basic 6 Investments to .NET. If you haven't yet considered moving your VB6 application to the .NET Framework, this may be a good place to start.... Posted Mar 05 2008, 03:42 PM by Jaguilar with | with no comments Filed under: Visual Basic Upgrade Wizard, VBUC

• Upgrade a VB6 Application Incrementally: The Interop Forms Toolkit

  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.... Posted Mar 03 2008, 11:19 AM by Jaguilar with | with no comments Filed under: Tools, VBUC

• Opening Projects Migrated with the VB Upgrade Companion on Visual Studio 2008

  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 ... Posted Jan 31 2008, 01:29 AM by Jaguilar with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Visual Basic Upgrade Wizard, Tools, Visual Studio 2008, VBUC