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 ...

First off I know VB6 pretty well so I went to try out VB.net that we are testing on a computer at school and holy shit it's all different. Like Unload Me doesn't work and frmwhatever.show doesn't ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lamont Adams, Builder.com's resident .Net guru, recently wrote about his confusion over .Net. According to Adams, one of the problems with .Net is that everything is called .Net--from marketing hype ...

More than 100 influential developers using Microsoft products have signed a petition demanding the software company reconsider plans to end support for Visual Basic in its "classic" form. The ...

Despite renewed developer hue and cry to do something with "classic" Visual Basic sparked by the recent 25th birthday celebration for the programming language, Microsoft is showing no signs of caving ...

Microsoft's latest version of Visual Basic, often called VB.NET, can help you create professional looking desktop applications and websites quickly. That's possible because the .NET framework upon ...