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Happy New Year! Apologies for the gap in posting – I have been working on a number of initiatives for the UK which will be helpful to Visual Basic developers and that has rather kept me away from blogging. However I was extremely pleased to read Howards...

[Survey is live from January 21st to January 26th, 2009] I have been working with my marketing colleague Sarah to create a survey to better understand the current reliance on Visual Basic 6.0 in the United Kingdom and what plans companies have to move...

I thought I’d try running the latest version of the upgrade wizard and compare the results with those shown in the ”Upgrading Visual Basic 6.0 Applications to Visual Basic .NET and Visual Basic 2005” guide. Just for good measure I ran the VB6 Code Advisor...

[This is currently a UK only initiative but you will still find a lot of useful information on the new site and I know our partners are happy to engage worldwide] Over the last couple of months I have been working with Sarah in my group to pull together...

I have been re-reading the ”Upgrading Visual Basic 6.0 Applications to Visual Basic .NET and Visual Basic 2005” guide lately which discusses phased migrations where individual application components are upgraded independently (which I prefer to call ...

I’d always assumed that creating a Runtime Callable Wrapper by adding a reference to the COM component in Visual Studio would generate the same interop code as was generated by using the command line tool TlbImp. That would seem not to be true in at least...

The following three tools can help you better understand what would be involved to migrate your VB6 applications to Microsoft.NET Microsoft's VB6 Code Advisor Tool This tool from Visual Basic Resource Center site, installs as an Add-In in the VB6 IDE...