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Monday, March 30, 2009 4:41 PM

Composite Application guidance for WPF and Silverlight gets a lick of Visual Basic paint

The Microsoft Patterns & Practices’ Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight (formerly code-named "Prism") was released with a heavy bias on C# which was a real shame for the many Visual Basic developers who are working on
Posted by Eric Nelson | 2 Comments
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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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 18, 2008 8:00 AM

Anybody for some free (and clever!) Visual Basic 2008 training?

In the UK we are working with InnerWorkings to create a great offer of training to UK developers. We still have some stuff to sort out but I am hopeful that we will be able to share the details of this very early in 2009. In my previous depth role we
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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
Posted by Eric Nelson | 1 Comments
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
Friday, October 31, 2008 3:13 PM

WPF Performance issues? Then maybe this tool can help…

I am seeing more interest in building richer UX in WPF of late which is great. Since WPF is very powerful and very flexible, we are beginning to see developers hit UX performance issues as they build increasingly rich and exciting UI. The good news is
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Friday, October 24, 2008 2:42 PM

VB links on Entity Framework, Data Services and WPF

The following are all well worth a look: N-Tier Development with Data Services and Entity Framework (16mins) A PM on the team builds a simple ADO.NET Data Services application in VB. Dynamic Data Entry with XML Literals Dynamic creation of WPF maintenance
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Monday, October 06, 2008 10:34 PM

Long strings in Visual Basic 2008

I suspect everyone already knew this – but for me it was shiny and new :-) XML Literals do not require line continuation characters, hence rather than this: 1: Dim msg1 As String = "this is a " & _ 2: "really, " & _ 3: "really " & _ 4: "long
Posted by Eric Nelson | 1 Comments
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