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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
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
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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 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 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
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 1:15 AM

Converting from C# to Visual Basic .NET

First Created: Wednesday 23rd July 2008 Updated: Thursday 24th July 2008 - added Telerik I have been playing with C# to Visual Basic converters. There are a few around and I have included the best I came across. However right now there is one clear winner
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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
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
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