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VB6 Migrations: Strategies, Best Practices and Options
22 February 08 05:34 AM | cjlotz | 2 comment(s)

Microsoft is ending its support for the Visual Basic 6 development tools on 8 April 2008 which leaves some companies in the precarious position of developing business critical applications with no support for their development tooling. Fortunately, the Visual Basic 6.0 runtime is still supported for quite some time: The Visual Basic team is committed to “It Just Works” compatibility for Visual Basic 6.0 applications on Windows® Vista™. The Visual Basic team’s goal is that Visual Basic 6.0 applications...

Filed under: VB6

Getting .NET Framework 3.5 and VS2008 Adopted
31 October 07 10:15 PM | cjlotz | 4 comment(s)

I'm currently trying to pro-actively drive the adoption of the .NET Framework 3.5 and VS 2008 within my company to start using it when it is released early next year. Our current standard is C#, using the .NET Framework 2.0 and VS 2005 SP1. We have a small portfolio of applications still running on .NET 1.1. Unfortunately we also have a big portfolio still running on VB6 . As part of the adoption I need to look at a migration roadmap for these applications and answer questions like: What's...

Filed under: C#, VisualStudio, CLR, VB.NET, Misc, VB6