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What is Microsoft’s Visual Basic 6 Support Strategy?
14 September 09 05:47 PM
I just posted an interview on Channel 9 with Paul Yuknewicz , Lead Program Manager on the Visual Studio team. Paul discusses Visual Basic 6 runtime and IDE support options as well as proven techniques, tools and best practices for interoperability and Read More...
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I Survived TechEd
09 June 08 04:20 PM
I feel like I need a T-shirt that says "I survived TechEd". It was my first time at TechEd and no one can really prepare you for how much work and play takes place at a huge conference like that. I had a BLAST. Our VB6 to .NET migration talks went well Read More...
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DevTeach - Last Day
16 May 08 08:19 AM
Thursday: Okay I know it's Friday but I was the last session of the day yesterday and I didn't have time to post afterwards (I'll tell you why in a minute). My duet session with Rob Windsor was on VB6 to .NET Migration. We're going to take this one to Read More...
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Webcast Starting! -- Migrating from VB6 to .NET
28 March 08 08:25 AM
Come join me and Rob Windsor in 30 minutes for a webcast on how to move your VB6 investments to .NET! Live From Red Bethmond: Migrating Your Visual Basic 6 Investments to .NET Hope to see you all there. If you can't make it live, the download will be Read More...
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Channel 9 Interview - Tips and Tricks with the Interop Forms Toolkit
04 March 08 04:14 PM
I just posted a Channel 9 interview with Todd Apley, Senior Test Lead on the VB Team, where he shows us a variety of tips and tricks with using the Interop Forms Toolkit on Visual Studio 2008. He also shows us how to deploy a hybrid application built Read More...
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Webcast on VB6 Migration to .NET
26 February 08 02:48 PM
I just added another webcast for March 28th on VB6 migration to .NET to the list of March madness webcasts I'll be doing . Rob Windsor and I will be presenting a bonus webcast on VB6 to .NET migration. If you're involved in a migration push and don't Read More...
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Migration from VB6 to .NET on dnrTV
02 January 08 01:52 PM
There's still a lot of Visual Basic 6 systems running the world and if you're one of the developers maintaining those systems you may be looking at migration strategies to move to .NET. You don't have to take on a complete rewrite of your system, there Read More...
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First Day at DevTeach
28 November 07 08:49 AM
I'm up in Vancouver at DevTeach and I have to say that so far it's been a great conference! I did a demo of my Visual Studio Tip of the Day browser and built an add-in ( like I showed here ) for part of the keynote with Ken Levy of the VSX team . This Read More...
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Using My.Settings and WCF Configuration with the Interop Forms Toolkit
24 October 07 01:07 PM
Recently I received a question from a customer asking how to get an Interop User control developed with the Interop Forms Toolkit to be able to read the application configuration settings (app.config) in order to call a WCF service. (If you're unfamiliar Read More...
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Visual Basic on Channel9
21 July 07 10:18 AM
I just posted a couple screen casts/interviews on Channel9 you should definitely check out. I rounded up VB team members and influentials and asked them what their favorite Visual Studio 2008 features were and to give us all a demo of them! The first Read More...
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Debugging Hybrid VB6/.NET Applications
03 July 07 05:11 PM
To wrap up this series of posts on hybrid applications with the Interop Forms Toolkit , I'd like to talk about debugging. There's a couple ways we can go about debugging with VB6 and Visual Studio and depending on where you're spending most of your coding Read More...
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Deploying Interop UserControls with RegFree-COM
27 June 07 08:12 PM
One of the features of the latest Interop Forms Toolkit is the ability to develop UserControls in addition to Windows Forms. In a previous post , I showed how to create a simple Interop UserControl. I also have a video here on creating them , and one Read More...
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Visual Basic Interop Video Series is Live!
25 June 07 07:23 PM
This how-to video series is focused on the Interop Forms Toolkit and working with Visual Basic .NET and Visual Basic 6 together. The Interop Forms Toolkit allows Visual Basic developers to migrate their Visual Basic 6 applications over to .NET using a Read More...
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Interop Forms Toolkit - Your New Best Friend
13 June 07 07:41 PM
I've been heads down this week (re)learning an older technology -- Visual Basic 6! With all the things to focus on like this , this and this you're probably asking "Um, Beth, WHY!?". It's because I've really been learning the Interop Forms Toolkit 2.0 Read More...
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