To that end, these ten tips are the most important kinds of refactorings you'll have to implement to migrate your VB6 applications to VB.NET successfully. This is a list that covers the top points you ...

More than 100 Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) developers have signed a petition demanding the software company reconsider plans to end support for Visual Basic in its "classic" form.

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 ...

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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 ...

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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Facing protests from legions of Visual Basic developers, Microsoft is not backing down. But it is taking steps to keep them on friendly terms. Microsoft remains "firm" in its plans to end free support ...

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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