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Thursday, February 26, 2009 11:20 PM

Support statement for Visual Basic 6.0 updated for Windows 7

I have been asked many times in the last few weeks about Windows 7 and VB6. The support statement has been updated to cover Windows 7 and the news is good. Windows 7 Since the initial release of this support statement, the Windows 7 operating system has
Posted by Eric Nelson | 1 Comments
Tuesday, February 17, 2009 11:54 PM

blogs.msdn.com/ericnel has moved to IUpdateable

My main blog (started back in 2004) has now moved to http://geekswithblogs.net/iupdateable/ as described here and will have a healthy number of VB posts. I also managed to grab http://iupdateable.com/ :-)
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009 8:49 PM

Results of Visual Basic Survey (UK)

In January we created a survey to understand how folks were using Visual Basic 6.0 and Visual Basic .NET in the UK. This survey was sent out to individuals we “suspected” had Visual Basic 6.0 heritage but it was also widely advertised through the UK MSDN
Posted by Eric Nelson | 0 Comments
Thursday, February 05, 2009 3:45 PM

Visual Basic Upgrade Wizard vs 3rd Party Migration Tools

[If you are UK based, check out www.microsoft.com/uk/vbmigration for more information ] A question I get asked a lot is “Are 3rd party migration tools really that much better than the free upgrade wizard from Microsoft?” Lets me be perfectly candid. Whilst
Posted by Eric Nelson | 0 Comments
Thursday, February 05, 2009 2:31 PM

Screencasts on the Interop Forms Toolkit 2.0

[This is a short post to accompany the UK Secure your Visual Basic 6.0 investment with Microsoft .NET initiative and is sourced from the main VB site ] This how-to video series is focused on the Interop Forms Toolkit and working with Visual Basic .NET
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Thursday, February 05, 2009 1:58 PM

A mocking framework especially designed for Visual Basic .NET

I was pleased to see the Typemock folks have delivered a special VB.NET API to use Typemock 5.2 for unit testing. This handles the differences in VB9 vs C# 3.0 around Lambdas (VB9 is restricted to functions where as C# 3.0 can handle statement lambdas
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Thursday, February 05, 2009 1:24 PM

New article on extending VB6.0 applications with the Interop Forms Toolkit 2.0

I just wanted to swiftly share some useful links if you choose to extend a Visual Basic 6.0 application including a new article I commissioned in the UK – which turned out rather good. Firstly links to the toolkit download and some of the best existing
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