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PInvoke Interop Assistant on CodePlex (Jared Parsons)
20 June 08 09:27 AM

I'm happy to announce that the PInvoke Interop Assistant tool is now available on CodePlex. This includes the binaries, source code and the dev authored unit tests. It is hosted on the more general CLR Interop Tools page. http://www.codeplex.com/clrinterop Read More...

Postedby VBTeam | 9 Comments    

Filed under: VB6_Migration/Interop, Jared Parsons, Did you know?, PInvoke

Improvements to Visual Basic 6 Runtime Support on Vista, Windows Server 2008 (by Paul Yuknewicz)
15 March 08 01:46 PM

You probably didn’t notice it, but we made some important and beneficial changes to the Support Statement for Visual Basic 6.0 on Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 just a few weeks ago, and I want to share the good news. First, just like Vista, Read More...

Postedby VBTeam | 14 Comments    

Filed under: Paul Yuknewicz, VB6_Migration/Interop

Making PInvoke Easy
14 March 08 09:56 AM

Jared here again. I very excited to announce we recently released a tool I've been working on to MSDN that will greatly help with using PInvoke in managed code. The tool is called the "PInvoke Interop Assistant" and is included as part of a MSDN article Read More...

Postedby VBTeam | 12 Comments    

Filed under: VB6_Migration/Interop, Jared Parsons, Did you know?, PInvoke

InteropForms ToolKit - Visual Studio 2008 edition (Todd Apley)
05 March 08 09:51 AM

I apologize right away that it's been a while since I've blogged about the interop forms toolkit although I've been doing my best to keep up with issues and questions on the interop forums . It seems from the mail I've received that a lot of people are Read More...

Postedby VBTeam | 12 Comments    

Filed under: VB6_Migration/Interop, Todd Apley, VB2008

Channel 9 Interview - Tips and Tricks with the Interop Forms Toolkit (Beth Massi)
04 March 08 10:23 PM

Today I posted a Channel 9 interview with Todd Apley, Senior Test Lead on the VB Team, where he shows us a variety of tips and tricks with using the Interop Forms Toolkit on Visual Studio 2008. He also shows us how to deploy a hybrid application built Read More...

Postedby VBTeam | 2 Comments    

Filed under: VB6_Migration/Interop, Beth Massi, Todd Apley, VB2008

Petzold Chapter 3 (Young Joo)
04 November 07 10:55 PM

I am Young Joo, PM @ VB team. I will be helping out Patrick on converting samples in Charles Petzold's WPF book (Applications = Code + Markup) to Visual Basic. This is an exciting project and I hope you enjoy this as much as I do. Another exciting news Read More...

Postedby VBTeam | 6 Comments    

Filed under: Young Joo, VB6_Migration/Interop, WPF, SMB

Attachment(s):Ch_03_Concept_of_Content.zip

Continued search for Small Business Developers and Chapter 2 of Petzold's book (finally!)
13 October 07 08:28 AM

I've attached the chapter 2 Visual Basic.NET code for the ongoing project of converting Peztold's Applications = Code + Markup book on WPF proramming. I am happy to say that Young from my team is going to help with this effort so you will see these chapters Read More...

Postedby VBTeam | 3 Comments    

Filed under: VB6_Migration/Interop, Patrick Dengler, WPF, SMB

Attachment(s):Chapter02.zip

Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 Power Packs 2.0 now available
24 August 07 05:40 PM

In case you didn't see the links go live on the Visual Basic Developer Center the VB Off-Cycle team has shipped the latest edition of the Power Pack controls . You can download them from here . In this update we've added the much anticipated Line and Read More...

Postedby VBTeam | 3 Comments    

Filed under: VB2005, Scott Tucker, VB6_Migration/Interop, Power Packs

Visual Basic on Channel9 (Beth Massi)
21 July 07 10:31 AM

I just posted a couple screen casts/interviews on Channel9 you should definitely check out. I rounded up VB team members and influentials and asked them what their favorite Visual Studio 2008 features were and to give us all a demo of them! The first Read More...

Postedby VBTeam | 1 Comments    

Filed under: LINQ/VB9, VB6_Migration/Interop, Beth Massi, VB2008

Slide deck for Interop Toolkit Webcast
06 June 07 05:38 PM

Thanks to everyone who was able to make it out for this morning's webcast. We covered how to use the Interop Toolkit 2.0 to upgrade VB6 applications to VB.NET, how to deploy hybrid applications, and finally we touched on some other great interop resources Read More...

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Filed under: Jonathan Aneja, VB2005, VB6_Migration/Interop

Attachment(s):Interop Toolkit 2.0 - Webcast.ppt

InteropForms 2.0 Tip #1 - Font Property
04 June 07 04:55 PM

(Starting today, we'll be highlighting various tips that might help you when using the InteropForms 2.0 toolkit. With the latest release of the toolkit, you can do some fairly impressive upgrades to your existing VB6 applications. Don't believe me? Check Read More...

Postedby VBTeam | 1 Comments    

Filed under: VB6_Migration/Interop, Todd Apley

Deploying Applications with the InteropForms 2.0 toolkit
04 June 07 04:46 PM

(Recently, we released the InteropForms 2.0 toolkit which allows you to add the richness of .net windows forms to your vb6 application. We've gotten a fair number of questions from customers asking for more details on deployment, so this will hopefully Read More...

Postedby VBTeam | 9 Comments    

Filed under: VB6_Migration/Interop, Todd Apley

So what does ComClass actually do?
01 June 07 07:59 PM

I came across a really cool article yesterday by James Ashley, which shows some of the cool things you can do with the Interop Forms Toolkit 2.0 . The three VB6 examples cover consuming a WebService (complete with a Dilbert icon showing up in the VB6 Read More...

Postedby VBTeam | 2 Comments    

Filed under: Jonathan Aneja, VB2005, VB6_Migration/Interop

Just Released - Interop Forms Toolkit 2.0!
02 May 07 02:40 PM

Today we launched the Interop Forms Toolkit 2.0 , which makes it easier than ever to upgrade VB6 applications to .NET. This new release builds on version 1.0 by adding support for the following features: Interop UserControls - These are .NET controls Read More...

Postedby VBTeam | 4 Comments    

Filed under: Jonathan Aneja, VB2005, VB6_Migration/Interop

Interop Roadmap – UserControls, MDI, and Data
02 November 06 04:53 PM

Recently the VB team released the Interop Forms Toolkit , which allows VB6 developers to extend their existing applications using .NET. The toolkit allows developers to write a regular Windows Form in VB.NET, click “Generate Wrapper Classes”, and then Read More...

Postedby VBTeam | 5 Comments    

Filed under: Paul Yuknewicz, IDE, Jonathan Aneja, VB2005, VB6_Migration/Interop

Attachment(s):InteropUserControl.zip