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Wednesday, January 28, 2009 8:36 PM

Secure your Visual Basic 6.0 investment with Microsoft .NET

[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
Posted by Eric Nelson | 1 Comments
Thursday, December 11, 2008 5:04 PM

Feedback appreciated on draft screencast on VB6 and the options to move to .NET

I am working with partners to pull together guidelines, resources and special promotions on tools to help UK companies with VB6 make the right choice around moving (or not) to .NET. This will happen early in 2009. There will be a new landing page with
Posted by Eric Nelson | 0 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 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
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
Wednesday, June 25, 2008 5:04 PM

Proposed VB sessions for my new role - comments welcome

One of the roles of my new team is to offer a "menu" of .NET sessions to UK user groups. I was pondering about adding a couple of specific Visual Basic sessions to that "menu" and see if there was take up. I came up with the following. Any thoughts? Visual
Posted by Eric Nelson | 0 Comments
Tuesday, June 10, 2008 4:27 PM

Visual Basic 6 migration to .NET

Back in April I posted a brief summary of some resources which my ISVs were finding useful as they considered moving to .NET. Since then I have been pointed by a colleague to VB Migration Partner which looks really interesting. Hopefully I can dig into
Posted by Eric Nelson | 1 Comments
Thursday, June 05, 2008 6:44 PM

Welcome to Goto100 - a C# free zone for UK developers!

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
Posted by Eric Nelson | 3 Comments
 
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