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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 have an old VB6 project (DLL) that someone wants converted to VB.NET. It's been a long time since I've worked with VB6, and I've never done VB.NET, though I've done enough C#. I've read up on the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Optimizing a VB.NET application often requires a deep understanding of how the .NET Framework works, including details about the inner workings of the garbage collector and the Just In Time (JIT) ...

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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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 ...

Optimizing a VB.NET application often requires a deep understanding of how the .NET Framework works, including details about the inner workings of the garbage collector and the Just In Time (JIT) ...