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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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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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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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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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The recording of last week’s webcast I did on compatibility options for Windows 7 is now online. It covers compatibility options available for Windows 7 (virtualization, Remediation) while focusing on the benefits of using automated migration tools.
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Today we unveiled something that we have been working on for the past few months – we’ve formed a strategic alliance with Gizmox to offer migrations from Visual Basic 6.0 to the web. This offering uses the Visual WebGui Framework to maintain the same user interface as the original application, inside an either ASP.NET or Silverlight application running on the web......
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Next Monday, August 17, I will be presenting a Webinar along with Microsoft for the Latin America region on how you can use several options to get your VB6.0 applications to run on Windows 7 and get the Windows 7 logo....
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We just posted a new case study about how an Italian company, Wolters Kluwer Italia, managed to successfully migrate its flagship Accounting and Financial services product from VB6.0 to Visual Basic .NET, using a customized version of the Visual Basic Upgrade Companion....
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One question commonly asked by our customers is how both duplicate (same file copied in several projects) and shared files (one copy of the file referenced from multiple projects) are counted......
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When either testing the trail version of the VBUC or actually running the migration tool on your project, there are a few things that you should check to ensure the best possible conversion....
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In the last couple of months we’ve done several significant updates to the website that I think are worth commenting about, including a completely new website with information useful for your migration projects, a revamped services offering including an online project ballpark calculator, and the ability to purchase a license of the VBUC online....
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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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A couple of days ago we made available the final release candidate for version 3.0 of both the Visual Basic Upgrade Companion Enterprise Edition and Developer Edition. You can now download a trial for the VBUC Developer Edition or request a one for the Enterprise Editionon our website....
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As I blogged before, the release of the VB Upgrade Companion v3.0 is due within the next few weeks. In this version we concentrated on three major areas: Increased Automation, New Features and Code Quality....
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We are currently wrapping up all development effort to focus on the final testing and stabilization of the next version of the Visual Basic Upgrade Companion, both Enterprise and Developer Editions, version 3.0. For this version we focused more on architecture improvements, preparing the code base for more significant upgrades in the future. We, however, still managed to add some great features that should help in the migration of both large and small projects....
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