Upgrading Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 to Microsoft Visual Basic .NET - Softcover

Microsoft Press

Softcover

ISBN 10: 073561587X ISBN 13: 9780735615878

Publisher: Microsoft Press,U.S., 2002

Synopsis

This book is a complete technical guide to upgrading Microsoft Visual Basic 6 applications to Microsoft Visual Basic .NET, it covers all aspects of upgrading from APIs to ZOrders. This book includes chapters on fixing upgrade issues with forms, language, data access and COM+ Services. It also shows how to add value to an upgraded applications with XML Web services.

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Review

Ideal for any project manager or developer working in Visual Basic, Upgrading Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 to Microsoft Visual Basic.NET delivers an admirably lucid and valuable guide to porting legacy VB code to the new .NET framework. This book offers some indispensable advice on making this transition go smoothly.

This text is notable for its clear-sighted presentation style, useful for both project managers (who must plan when to upgrade code) and working VB developers (who must cope with a host of new APIs and language changes in VB.NET). The authors first establish the reasons why Microsoft chose to break literally millions of lines of code with the new .NET. They explore old and new VB languages and pay attention to features that have been dropped in the new version.

The heart of this text examines the Visual Basic.NET Upgrade Wizard in excellent detail, starting with a simple VB 6 project upgraded to VB.NET. As the authors suggest, this wizard handles 95 percent of the port to .NET for your VB code. Much of this text explains what do about the remaining five percent of features that don't make the cut. One standout chapter here looks at which VB 6 systems to upgrade first. Not every legacy system will need to the upgraded, the authors prudently observe. Another valuable section examines the "errors, warnings and issues" generated by the upgrade wizard with specific suggestions on how to re-write code that doesn't get translated automatically.

Later chapters look at specific areas of .NET that can "add value" to your projects, including the advantages of ADO.NET and Windows Forms vs the older ADO and ActiveX standards. There's plenty of useful advice for getting the old and new VB to interoperate, too, notably using ActiveX, COM and COM+ controls within .NET (a perfectly acceptable strategy). Final reference sections list changes between VB 6 to VB.NET, highlighting which language features are no longer supported.

Sanctioned by Microsoft Press, this title gives you the proverbial "inside track" on upgrading VB 6 to VB.NET in an admirably well-organised text that’s filled with practical advice. With millions of VB developers out there facing .NET for the first time, this title provides a worthy resource for moving old code into the future as smoothly and as cheaply as possible. --Richard Dragan

From the Publisher

Learn how to migrate your Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 applications to Visual Basic .NET with information direct from the source—Microsoft—including best practices, tip, and tricks.

Includes side-by-side comparisons of Visual Basic 6.0 and Visual Basic .NET functionality—complete with code samples—to help you migrate with the least impact to your organization

Edition details

• Publisher: Microsoft Press,U.S.
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 073561587X
• ISBN 13: 9780735615878
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 550