An important point is being missed in all the banter about continuing VB6 vs. .NET. A lot of companies that have been developing in VB6, including n-tier ASP, are telling programmers that the move to ...

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Mobilize.Net has updated its Visual Basic migration tool to support .NET 6. The firm specializes in migration software, with offerings for WinForms-to-web/cloud, VB6-to-.NET, Silverlight-to-HTML and ...

Christopher Pesola was so eager to see how well the upgrade wizard Microsoft Corp. supplied would migrate Visual Basic 6 applications to its new .Net development environment that he tried a beta ...

I'm curious about a few issues that have to do with the VB6.0 ---> VB.Net upgrade.<BR><BR><BR>I recently read an article that stated that MS was ending support for VB6.0 in 2005, I'm currently getting ...

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OK, I know this could cause me some problems but here goes, we have a data entry application that I am migrating from Access to VB.Net. In Access the person that made it went to great pains to have ...

Hundreds of users with heavy investments in Visual Basic 6 code have urged Microsoft Corp. to reconsider its 3-year-old decision to end mainstream support for the development environment at the end of ...