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November 2008 - Posts

Thursday, November 27, 2008 9:47 AM

Comparing CodeArchitects VB Migration Partner with our Free Upgrade Wizard

One of the companies I am currently working with is CodeArchitects and more specifically Francesco Balena . Francesco has deep knowledge on all things VB which he (thankfully) decided to transfer into the form of a VB6 migration tool – VB Migration Partner
Posted by Eric Nelson | 1 Comments
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 11:49 AM

I nearly forgot to mention GIGO!

A common mistake I have seen when teams use automated migration tools is the failure to consider our old friend GIGO – Garbage In, Garbage Out. Before you consider using any automated tool such as the Visual Basic Upgrade Wizard you should spend some
Posted by Eric Nelson | 1 Comments
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 9:36 PM

Upgrading VB6 applications – a moment to reflect :-)

I’ve now spent a bit of time with the book ”Upgrading Visual Basic 6.0 Applications to Visual Basic .NET and Visual Basic 2005” , so what are my thoughts about it? The good news is it remains a comprehensive and valuable resource for anyone planning to
Posted by Eric Nelson | 1 Comments
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 9:25 PM

VB6 Database code?

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
Posted by Eric Nelson | 1 Comments
Tuesday, November 11, 2008 9:41 AM

ASP to ASP.NET

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
Posted by Eric Nelson | 1 Comments
Tuesday, November 11, 2008 9:10 AM

Functional Equivalence vs Application Advancement (and Vertical vs Horizontal)

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
Posted by Eric Nelson | 2 Comments
Wednesday, November 05, 2008 6:09 PM

Announcing http://www.unemployedunderscores.com/

Visual Basic 10 will remove the need for the underscore in most cases – and the team have done the right thing and set up http://www.unemployedunderscores.com/ in readiness for all those unemployed underscores :-)
Posted by Eric Nelson | 1 Comments
Wednesday, November 05, 2008 3:24 PM

Microsoft releases yet another programming language - Introducing Small Basic

Wow. I love this. This brings back all the great memories I had (even of the bugs) of how I first got into writing software using BASIC on the ZX80. My kids have already given it a massive thumbs up. First a big thanks to Vijaye for creating this in his
Posted by Eric Nelson | 1 Comments
Wednesday, November 05, 2008 2:30 PM

Estimating the effort to move to .NET

Software estimation is difficult at the best of times (which is why I recommend Software Estimation Demystified ), but estimating how long an upgrade will take to an environment you’re not familiar with is going to be hard to get right. There’s a utility
Posted by Eric Nelson | 1 Comments
Monday, November 03, 2008 2:38 PM

Interview with Richard Warnett of Financial Objects on their decision to go with Visual Basic .NET

A big thanks to Richard for taking the time to do this. I have known Financial Objects for many years and have been impressed with how they have successfully taken forward their VB6 investment onto .NET using Visual Basic .NET. I would love to do a few
Posted by Eric Nelson | 1 Comments
Monday, November 03, 2008 1:59 PM

Rewrite vs Migrate vs Reuse vs Replace

“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
Posted by Eric Nelson | 5 Comments
Monday, November 03, 2008 1:30 PM

Moving from VB6 to VB.NET – time for a poll…

Back in April I posted a summary of some of the resources I’d found which look useful to anyone involved in the move from VB6 to .NET. Over the next few weeks I’m going to dig into this whole area in a bit more detail, starting with a bit of reading .
Posted by Eric Nelson | 1 Comments
 
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