Goto 100 - Development with Visual Basic

“Upgrading Visual Basic 6.0 Applications to Visual Basic .NET and Visual Basic 2005” is a great resource for anyone looking at upgrading from VB6 to .NET. The guide was developed jointly by the Microsoft patterns & practices team and ArtinSoft . See...

LINQ has two syntaxes – Lamda syntax and Comprehension syntax. Each has their uses and you can happily mix them. Lamda syntax is stuff like: var longWords = words.Where( w => w.length > 10); Dim longWords = words.Where(Function(w) w.length >...

William has been heavily involved in helping UK companies migrate their VB6 applications to .NET. William kindly agreed to a short interview. Enjoy. William, could you just say a few words about your role inside Logica? Hi Eric, I’m the Lead Architect...

Mandy in marketing asked me to "Create some text that we could use on a flyer to tell folks why they might want to visit that new blog of yours on Visual Basic". My first thought was "Cripes - I haven't got any real content yet!" - but I'm glad to say...

Hello folks and welcome to Goto100. The obvious question is - what is Goto100? There is a short answer and a longer answer to that. The short answer: It is resource for developers in the UK. For developers using Visual Basic .NET and developers faced...

A little over a year back I first spoke to Roberto to see if Artinsoft could help me with a large ISV with a significant investment in Visual Basic 6. Since then I have had the pleasure to meet Roberto on a number of occasions and have seen Artinsoft...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink [ Check out my other QandAs ] You would reasonably expect to be charged for the use of the Windows Azure Platform for any application you have built which is live on Azure. But you...

The Microsoft Patterns & Practices’ Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight (formerly code-named "Prism") was released with a heavy bias on C# which was a real shame for the many Visual Basic developers who are working on...

First Created: Wednesday 23rd July 2008 Updated: Thursday 24th July 2008 - added Telerik I have been playing with C# to Visual Basic converters. There are a few around and I have included the best I came across. However right now there is one clear...

UK Visual Basic MVP Ged has been taking a look at WPF this year. I spotted his post on WPF Basics: How To Play Sounds and Music in Windows Presentation Foundation a couple of weeks back and found it a clean, easy to follow example - that really tried...

Refactoring is a hot topic and something many developers are expecting to be available straight OOTB. Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 gave C# developers a whapping 6: Rename Extract Method Remove/Reorder parameters Promote Local Extract Interface Encapsulate...

I really have got a taste for this thing called “holiday” - hence I am off to do it again for a week. Have fun all.

I am confused on this one. I have had people tell me it is excellent and others tell me it is just “ok” – and can’t see a pattern. Anyone given it a good going over?

We have a rather impressive set of new technologies for working with data – LINQ, LINQ to SQL, LINQ to Entities, Data Services, ASP.NET Dynamic Data etc. What I am finding is… they don’t all get on with each other as well as you might have thought. My...

These are a couple of useful terms I’ve picked up from the ”Upgrading Visual Basic 6.0 Applications to Visual Basic .NET and Visual Basic 2005” guide (I really need an acronym to refer to this book!). They refer to two stages of the upgrade process: Functional...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink I was presenting at the excellent .NET Developer Network in Bristol last night run by the awesome Guy Smith-Ferrier. Guy reminded me of this awesome news which needs broadcasting widely...

A favourite topic for VB6 programmers! Adding a reference to a COM component in Visual Studio adds a reference to a specific version of the VB6 component, so rebuilding the VB6 component without binary compatibility will break the .NET project (you’ll...

Just as an aside - after experimenting with the Interop Forms Toolkit earlier this year I wondered how InteropToolbox ended up in the My namespace – it seems like a useful thing to be able to do. I didn’t have to look far, the answer was in the ActiveXControlHelpers...

I’ve been having a look at some of the samples on the Visual Basic Resource Center to see what’s possible when we start using interop between VB6 and .NET. Here are some of my favourites. This article, “Sharing ADO Recordsets Between Visual Basic 6 and...

VB6 programmers will remember a useful little utility called the API Viewer, the helped out when you needed to make a Windows API call. There is now an equivalent tool for .NET, the P/Invoke Interop Assistant ( http://www.codeplex.com/clrinterop ). Not...

There may be some circumstances where upgrading a VB6 application is not feasible, for example it may rely on a control that simply does not work in the target operating system. I came across a couple of articles on MSDN that discussed the ways that virtualisation...

One of the reasons for moving to VB.NET from VB6 may be the more advanced security models available in the .NET Framework - this is particularly relevant in the ASP.NET world where many .NET applications will need a security system. In the desktop arena...

Note: Cross posted from IUpdateable from Eric Nelson . Permalink I wanted to point folks at this great blog if you are interested in Cloud Computing. Janakiram MSV has been busily producing some great work in his role as a Cloud Computing Strategist...

Visual Basic migration to .NET includes: VB6 rich client migration – which represents the majority of migration projects I have seen ASP to ASP.NET migration – aka vbscript migration Access migration – aka vba migration (although Access migration often...

What happens when you upgrade a VB6 application that accesses a database? Or, more precisely, how does the automatic upgrade deal with DAO, RDO and ADO? ADO with and without data binding . This is supported by the upgrade wizard, but if you’ve got any...