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In the VB6 world it was very common to use “Resizer” OCXs that you just put on your forms and that they handle all the proportional resizing needed if you changed your form. It was very simple and easy. However when I started looking for something like...
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My good friend Jafet, was recently dealing with an interesting bug in Visual Studio. He created a simple Visual Studio Project that had just an interface that he exposed thru COM. He’s intention was to compile the Class Library and use the TLB file in...
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My first language ever was GW-Basic. I was a teenager doing in summer work at a company that made polls about hair products and things like that. At that time I didn’t had a computer. They were tooooo expensive. And I found a manual for GW-Basic. I stole...
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This is an interesting workaround that you can use to support the migration of ActiveX Documents with the Artinsoft VBUM. DOWNLOAD TOOL With this tool you can fix your projects, so they are supported by the the Artinsoft Migration Tool. Just run the tool...
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During migratio of a simple project, we found an interesting migration details. The solution has a project with two Forms. Form1 and Form2. Form1 has a command button and in the Click for that command button it performs a code like UnLoad Form2. But it...
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Just more details about scripting Using the MS Scripting Object The MS Scripting Object can be used in .NET applications. But it has several limitations. The main limitation it has is that all scripted objects must be exposed thru pure COM. The scripting...
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I saw this with Francisco and this is one possible solution: ASP Source rs.Save Response, adPersistXML rs is an ADODB.RecordSet variable, and its result is being written to the ASP Response Wrong Migration rs.Save(Response <-- The ASP.NET Response...
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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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Have you ever wished to modify the way Visual Studio imported a COM Class. Well finally you can. The Managed, Native, and COM Interop Team (wow what a name). It looks like the name of that goverment office in the Ironman movie. Well this fine group of...
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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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