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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....
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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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.... and so we reached 2008. This may seem like any other "average" year - the price of gas keeps going up, everybody talks about global warming, and will be an election year in the US (so we have one more reason to stop watching TV). However, for a large group of IT departments around the world, 2008 is a BIG year. 2008 is the year when Microsoft officially kills support for Visual Basic 6.0....
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Planning and performing a Visual Basic 6.0 migration is not that straightforward. You need to keep track of many small details, and you need to keep in mind the complete migration process – in other words, always see the big picture. The tool I posted...
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Yesterday I blogged about the Code Advisor , that will pinpoint common programming practices that difficult the migration of a VB6 application. Well, another very important tool that you can add to your arsenal is the Visual Basic 6.0 Upgrade Assessment...
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If you are considering to upgrade your Visual Basic 6.0 application to Visual Basic .NET or C#, remember that the recommended first step is to run Microsoft’s Code Advisor for Visual Basic 6.0....
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The Visual Basic Upgrade Companion allows you to convert calls to the Win32 API from Visual Basic 6 to C#. API calls in VB6 have the following syntax: Public Declare Function RegOpenKey Lib "advapi32.dll" _ Alias "RegOpenKeyA" (ByVal hKey As Long, _ ByVal...
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One of the best features of the Visual Basic Upgrade Companion, Enterprise Edition , is the fact that it transforms your ADO code into ADO.NET . The Companion converts most of ADO features automatically, and it work correctly even if you choose to generate...
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My coworker Hendel Valverde will be presenting a webcast called Complete Methodology for Migrating Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 to Visual Basic .NET , tomorrow at 1:00 PM Pacific. It covers all the steps necessary to prepare and perform migrations from...
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Three videos that outline the strengths of the Informix 4GL migration tool, the JLCA Companion and the VB Upgrade Companion EE, were uploaded to the download page....
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During the Visual Basic webcasts we get several questions, not all of them related to VB migrations. Following the 64–bit webcast’s lead , I think it would be a good idea to share them with you (they were originally asked in spanish, this is my rough...
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Tomorrow I'll be doing the final Webcast in a series about migrating from Visual Basic 6.0 to Visual Basic .NET. This one will be about tecniques on how to migrate common objects in Visual Basic (some controls, database access, forms, etc), and about...
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In the next few weeks I'll be doing several webcasts for Microsoft Latin America. They are about Visual Basic 6.0 to Visual Basic .NET migrations, and will be given in spanish. The first presentation will be this Friday, and it is called Why consider...
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