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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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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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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
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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
Monday, October 06, 2008 12:28 AM

Moving between Visual Basic and C# syntax

There are several tools available to convert back and forth – but sometimes all you really need is a simple side by side comparison . It doesn’t include many of the latest features but it is a handy thing to have around if you are moving back and forth
Posted by Eric Nelson | 1 Comments
Tuesday, September 30, 2008 9:54 PM

Q&A: Using both C# and Visual Basic .NET in the same Web Application

I get quite a random set of questions coming into my Inbox from folks I meet at events, conferences and through my blog. I thought it might be useful if I started sharing my answers when these come in. To start this off, I was asked: “We have two .NET
Posted by Eric Nelson | 1 Comments
Wednesday, August 20, 2008 5:23 PM

Visual Basic and .NET Framework Versions

Hi all, apologies for the pause in blogging. This is holiday season and I am … having plenty of holiday :-) (Which makes a nice change) A couple of folks have asked me recently about Visual Basic versions and .NET Framework versions and how they tie up.
Posted by Eric Nelson | 1 Comments
Wednesday, August 06, 2008 4:04 PM

Visual Basic 2008 Express Edition - #1 in the UK

I remembered Paul Vick (VB team) spoke to Scott end of 2008 – and as part of that Paul mentioned four interesting metrics. Visual Basic is the #1 .NET language (as reported by Forrester Research) Visual Basic is the #1 downloaded and #1 registered Express
Posted by Eric Nelson | 1 Comments
Tuesday, August 05, 2008 4:48 PM

C# and Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll

As I dig into Visual Basic a bit further I to realise what I have been missing as a (lapsed) C# developer. A great example is some of the goodness wrapped up in Microsoft.VisualBasic.dll. It is a standard part of the .NET Framework and… is absolutely
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
Posted by Eric Nelson | 2 Comments
Thursday, July 17, 2008 2:34 PM

Visual Basic samples for WPF book - Applications = Code + Markup

Once again, Ged Meads work on WPF catches my eye. A big thanks to Ged, Young Joo and Evan Lim for converting the C# samples over to Visual Basic for Petzolds book on WPF (Only 3 left in stock at Amazon UK - lets get those sold as well - but be warned,
Posted by Eric Nelson | 0 Comments
Tuesday, July 08, 2008 5:45 PM

Intellisense - VB 2005 vs VB2008 + a great example of mixing VB with XML

I had not appreciated just how much intellisense had improved between releases of Visual Basic until I spent 6mins watching this (which isn't a huge surprise as I have never coded in VB 2005). Lisa also does a great job of showing the real power of XML
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