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| | Total Hits: 238 | Today: 0 | Author: Steven Roman, Ph.D. | Rating:  |
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If you are a Visual Basic programmer using VB6 (or earlier), then sooner or later you will need to wrestle with the decision of whether or not to upgrade to VB .NET... |
| | Total Hits: 63 | Today: 0 | Author: Scott Swigart | Rating: |
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Many organizations have a significant Microsoft Visual Basic 6 code base and are seeking to make the best decisions regarding this legacy code. There are fundamentally three choices when deciding what to do with Visual Basic 6 applications. You can maintain a Visual Basic 6 application as-is, without incorporating any new technology into this legacy application. You can migrate the Visual Basic 6 application fully to Visual Basic .NET. Or you can keep your Visual Basic 6 code, and interoperate w... |
| | Total Hits: 106 | Today: 0 | Author: Ted Pattison | Rating: |
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This month is a continuation of the Basic Instincts column that appeared in the May 2001 issue of MSDN® Magazine. In May's column, I discussed how the Visual Basic® language has been enhanced to include many new conveniences. I explained how the language designers have improved the syntax of Visual Basic to promote higher levels of type safety and consistency. I also showed new syntax for dealing with familiar concepts such as properties and arrays.... |
| | Total Hits: 161 | Today: 0 | Author: Joshua Trupin | Rating: |
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The plans for the next version of Microsoft Visual Basic include three major improvements: Web Forms, Web services, and object-oriented language enhancements. Web Forms will let veteran Visual Basic users develop Web-based applications as easily as they design standalone apps today. Through a SOAP interface, Web services will let you deploy programmable modules anywhere that can be reached by a URL. In addition, several key object-oriented language enhancements, including inheritance, polymorphi... |
| | Total Hits: 95 | Today: 0 | Author: ArtinSoft | Rating: |
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There are many misconceptions on the right way to approach the upgrade of a Visual Basic 6.0 application to Visual Basic .NET, and on how much effort is required for such a migration. This document is intended as a guide to prepare a migration strategy. It describes a number of factors throughout the distinct stages of a migration project that should be considered to guarantee the successful completion of the project, as well as the best practices derived from the execution of multiple migration... |
| | Total Hits: 178 | Today: 0 | Author: Patrick Meader | Rating: |
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Federico Zoufaly is vice president of operations at ArtinSoft, the company Microsoft contracted with to write the .NET migration tool that ships with Visual Studio .NET. Patrick Meader, VSM editor in chief, talks to Zoufaly about the challenges of migrating applications from VB6 to VB.NET. Among the items discussed: How do you know whether it makes sense to migrate a particular application?... |
| | Total Hits: 92 | Today: 0 | Author: microsoft | Rating: |
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Provides a brief overview of the validation framework in ASP.NET and walks through an example of adding validation to a page.... |
| | Total Hits: 258 | Today: 0 | Author: CodeProject | Rating: |
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There will be certainly a need to migrate applications developed with VB6 to VB.NET. Although simple programs can be migrated without any rework as the present note shows, projects with any complexity may need rework and research. This may lead to the conclusion that it may be easier to start from scratch.
This Article Describes the migration of a simple VB project to VB.NET.... |
| | Total Hits: 93 | Today: 0 | Author: codeproject | Rating: |
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Some people hate C++. It’s so cryptic! That’s what some people used to think. In this article Author has found the solution to a problem of VB.NET programmers everywhere.... |
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This document provides recommendations for Microsoft Visual Basic developers planning to upgrade their applications to Visual Basic.NET. It includes information on the Visual Basic.NET Upgrade Tool and discusses architectural guidelines for enabling a smooth upgrade from Visual Basic 6 to Visual Basic.NET.... |
| | Total Hits: 35 | Today: 0 | Author: salysle | Rating:  |
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This article provides an introduction to employing LINQ to Objects queries to support a simple WinForms application; the article addresses the construction of LINQ to Objects statements, and then goes on to describe how one might use LINQ to Objects within the context of an actual application.... |
| | Total Hits: 78 | Today: 0 | Author: Microsoft | Rating: |
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This article demonstrates how to use the Redirect method of the HttpResponse class in ASP.NET applications to redirect a user to another URL.... |
| | Total Hits: 72 | Today: 0 | Author: Rod Stephens. | Rating: |
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Access databases are cheap, but they work well only for small, single-user applications. SQL Server is powerful enough to support huge databases with multiple simultaneous users, but it is very expensive. What if you're stuck somewhere in between? Rod Stephens explains how you can use MSDE to build small multiuser applications while preparing to scale up if your database needs increased performance.... |
| | Total Hits: 161 | Today: 0 | Author: Paul Kimmel | Rating: |
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There is so much new stuff in the upcoming version of .NET, and it's not just run of the mill components. Microsoft has torqued up .NET and added some very, very powerful features that will significantly change the way you program. These are quantum changes.
In this article, I will demonstrate a small part of my presentation from the West Michigan .NET Users Group Day of .NET, An Introduction to Orcas, anonymous types. (Kudos to Chris Woodruff for pulling off a first rate event.)... |
| | Total Hits: 165 | Today: 0 | Author: Dennis Hayes | Rating: |
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In this article general conversions, including DLLs, then start on database conversions. Next month, in the final segment, I will cover converting ASP.NET Web pages, and look at converting to VB.NET 2005 and C#.... |
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This article show why you should not develop real-world network applications in VB6, instead, opt for C# or VB.NET.... |
| | Total Hits: 233 | Today: 0 | Author: Dan Mabbutt | Rating: |
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This is the second article in a series that starts with an explanation of the Tic Tac Toe program for beginners and ends with a completely recoded version in VB.NET. The Tic Tac Toe program is an excellect way to demonstrate some fundamental principals. In this program, we'll see why it's often not a good idea to rely on the Microsoft Upgrade Wizard to convert your programs to VB.NET. Although I create a program that ... well ... does work, you will see that using the base created by the Upgrade... |
| | Total Hits: 68 | Today: 0 | Author: Bill Sempf | Rating: |
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Convert Visual Basic 6 UI controls into Visual Basic 2005 easily and efficiently.In the world of conversion of Visual Basic 6 applications, little causes more concern than controls that just won't convert. Between in-project controls that you have the source code for, custom ActiveX controls that you bought back in 1997, and the built-in Microsoft controls that have no real conversion path, the task is not easy.
There is hope, however. Code in Visual Basic 6 user controls convert fairly well ... |
| | Total Hits: 83 | Today: 0 | Author: Scott Swigart | Rating: |
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Accessing the file system is a common application requirement, and in the spirit of Microsoft Visual Basic Fusion, this article shows how to access some of the best Microsoft .NET Framework file system functionality from existing Visual Basic 6 applications. Learn how to get the extension for a file, the directory portion or a path, or the file name portion of a path. Learn how to fire events every time the contents of a directory change... |
| | Total Hits: 85 | Today: 0 | Author: Ken Getz | Rating: |
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Part 2 of this article series focuses on the data features of converting code from ADO to ADO.NET. ADO.NET operations require less code, and replacing the COM interop features will make your application more efficient... |
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