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Thursday, April 09, 2009 3:28 PM

UK Visual Basic 6.0 Migration Case Studies – 800K LOC moved to C#

I have worked on and off with UK company Vertex for 13 years and like many large companies, some of their applications contain code that I first saw 13 years back – Visual Basic 6.0 code. Recently they managed to ensure compliance and business continuity
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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
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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
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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
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Sunday, July 13, 2008 8:56 PM

40% off Visual Basic .NET and C# Books ... (UK)

Visual Basic 6 developer moving to .NET - you need a good book! http://www.microsoft-press.co.uk/hellodotnet I have been looking for ways to help the Visual Basic 6 folks transition to .NET. Paul in my old ISV team suggested a discount of Microsoft Press
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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
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008 4:59 PM

Interview with William Morgan of Logica UK

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
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008 4:42 PM

Interview with Artinsoft CEO Roberto Leiton Garro

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
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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
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