Welcome to MSDN Blogs Sign in | Join | Help

Browse by Tags

All Tags » Visual Basic 6 » UK   (RSS)
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
Posted by Eric Nelson | 0 Comments
Filed under: , ,
Tuesday, February 17, 2009 8:49 PM

Results of Visual Basic Survey (UK)

In January we created a survey to understand how folks were using Visual Basic 6.0 and Visual Basic .NET in the UK. This survey was sent out to individuals we “suspected” had Visual Basic 6.0 heritage but it was also widely advertised through the UK MSDN
Posted by Eric Nelson | 0 Comments
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
Posted by Eric Nelson | 0 Comments
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
Posted by Eric Nelson | 0 Comments
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, January 22, 2009 1:42 PM

Survey on the usage of Visual Basic 6.0 in UK companies

[Survey is live from January 21st to January 26th, 2009] I have been working with my marketing colleague Sarah to create a survey to better understand the current reliance on Visual Basic 6.0 in the United Kingdom and what plans companies have to move
Posted by Eric Nelson | 1 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
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
Monday, July 07, 2008 10:19 PM

Building a "brand new application" - WPF, ADO.NET Data Services, LINQ to Entities with .NET Framework 3.5 SP1

At the end of June I run workshops with 2 ISVs both looking to completely re-develop their applications. One is entirely VB6, the other a combination of VB6 with C++. The beauty of "starting from scratch" with a one to two year development plan is you
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
Thursday, June 19, 2008 11:05 AM

UK jobs using Visual Basic?

I was wondering what folks felt the job market looked like out there for Visual Basic .NET developers? Based on my experiences with ISVs it appears healthy to me - but I have had some feedback to say that Visual Basic .NET jobs are rare. I would love
Posted by Eric Nelson | 0 Comments
Tuesday, June 10, 2008 5:23 PM

An advert for Goto100...

Mandy in marketing asked me to "Create some text that we could use on a flyer to tell folks why they might want to visit that new blog of yours on Visual Basic". My first thought was "Cripes - I haven't got any real content yet!" - but I'm glad to say
Posted by Eric Nelson | 4 Comments
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
Posted by Eric Nelson | 4 Comments
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
Posted by Eric Nelson | 3 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
 
Page view tracker