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In VB6 you could create an OutOfProcess instance to execute some actions. But there is not a direct equivalent for that. However you can run a class in an another application domain to produce a similar effect that can be helpful in a couple of scenarios...
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<p> </p> <p>Have you ever wished to modify the way Visual Studio imported a COM Class. Well finally you can.</p> <p>The <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb...
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The WebBrowser control for .NET is just a wrapper for the IE ActiveX control. However this wrapper does not expose all the events that the IE ActiveX control exposes. For example the ActiveX control has a NewWindow2 that you can use to intercept when...
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If you have some .NET code that you want to share with VB6, COM has always been a nice option. You just add couple of ComVisible tags and that's all. But... Collections can be a little tricky. This is a simple example of how to expose your Collections...
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When people decide to migrate their VB6 applications they eventually end up questioning where they should go. Is VB.NET or C# a good choice? I have my personal preference, but my emphasis is in developing the technology to take where YOU want to go. VB...
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Console applications are still very useful for me. I write like 125 console applications in the morning and like 4 or 5 in the afternoon. In one of these applications that was running a long process I just started wandering: what will happen with Lost...
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Motivation: I hate to be disappointed. Specially if it is by a person you had respect for. And that's exactly what Francisco Balena from VB Migration Partner, has done. I have respected him for his books and all his VB6 experience. In terms of legacy...
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Recently my friend Yoel had just a wonderful idea. We have an old Win32 C++ application, and we wanted to add a serious logging infraestructure so we can provide better support in case the application crashes. So Yoel came with the idea of using an existing...
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We found and interesting bug during a migration. The issue was that when there was an iteration through the controls in the forms, and you set the Enabled property, the property didn't get set. After some research my friend Olman found this workaroung...
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Do you want to create a program to install your assembly in the GAC using C#. Well if you had that requirement or you are just curious, here is how. I read these three articles: Demystifying the .NET Global Assembly Cache GAC API Interface Undocumented...
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I present here the implementation of some useful tasks In Artinsoft we perform massive migrations of VB6 code to VB.Net and C#. And sometimes after migration there are customizations to be performed on the code, to add new functionality or to set certain...
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I had the requirement of creating a MSBuild custom task that opens a .csproj adds a reference to another project. The problem I faced is that references in VisualStudio are generated as relative paths, so I needed something to help me generate relative...
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In my past life I spent a few eons writing Java code. And it wasn't bad. We had nice tools like Jalopy! that allowed us to have code in a very standard way. And I missed that. I've been looking around for something similar but I havent found anything...
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During migration to C# or .NET it is easier to keep the same ActiveX. The VBCompanion does a great work in migrating the ActiveX control using the .NET ActiveX wrappings and fixing all method calls. Sadly sometimes those ActiveX do not work properly in...
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Recently we added some support for migrating the IsMissing function to VB.NEt or C# The thing is. In VB6 the IsMissing Function is TRUE only if you have something like: Public Sub Foo(Optional str) Where you dont specify the variable type, or if you have...
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