Last week JAOO Conference took place in Aarhus , Denmark . This is probably one of the best software engineering conferences. Just looking at the speakers presenting there is impressive. The Smart Client Team at patterns & practices was invited...

We have just announced a new release plan for the CAB. The CTP 2 will be available on October 7th. (2 weeks from now). Initially, we had planned to release it on Friday 23rd. The delay is rooted in our decision to target .NET 2.0 Release Candidate...

Last week our Keith Pleas and I were interviewed by the guys at Dr Dobbs Journal about the upcoming VB6 Migration Guide . Check in the Microsoft PDC 2005 section or download the audio file directly from here . This is just the first 15 min of the interview...

The patterns & practices Visual Basic migration development team is pleased to make available a new community preview of the Visual Basic 6 to Visual Basic .NET Migration Assessment Tool and Guide. This is a beta release of the Guide and the Tool...

Last week our star presenter, Ron Jacobs, gave another formidable presentation on CAB using another Lab as the basis of it. If you missed it, don't worry, you can always watch the replay. Just go here . Enjoy!

We just published the Release plan for CAB v1.0: Essentially we are planning a new community code drop in 3 weeks that will be updated to run on .NET 2.0 August CTP. This release focuses on public APIs stability and includes lot's of feedback...