by John Browne, on Nov 8, 2021 9:05:33 AM
Here's the back story: senior development manager needs to move a legacy desktop application to the web. Our company gives him a proposal for a migration. The C-suite asks him …
Read Storyby Mauricio Rojas, on Nov 4, 2021 8:17:16 AM
Snowflake is a great and ease to use platform. I am constantly moving workloads from Teradata, SQL Server, and Oracle to this platform. However, I have encountered an interesting situation …
Read Storyby Olman Quesada, on Oct 15, 2021 2:30:25 PM
FarPoint Spread ActiveX grid control was a very popular component for VB6 applications. However, because it stores design information in a proprietary, migrating can be difficult. The VBUC doesn't understand …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Sep 1, 2021 8:17:24 AM
Possibly the single-most wildly anticipated and over-hyped IPO of 2020 was Snowflake (SNOW:NYSE), a hot provider of cloud data warehouse software. (Snowflake, in keeping with all hot young startups, likes …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Jul 21, 2021 5:01:22 PM
This is a tale of two projects: one which never was, and one which never should have been. One of the great pleasures of life is meeting interesting people, and …
Read Storyby Olman Quesada, on Jul 8, 2021 11:37:58 AM
Recently one of our customers faced a critical issue with COM classes in a converted application. The original VB6 application created instances of external classes at runtime that executed methods …
Read Storyby Brandon Carver, on Jun 16, 2021 4:56:03 AM
In case you missed it, there’s another Snowflake Summit this week. (Today, in fact!) That’s right, ascending to one summit was not enough for Snowflake in June of 2021, so …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Jun 15, 2021 4:45:44 PM
Today we released the Visual Basic Upgrade Companion version 9.2 for general availability. You can download a trial version here. With this release we have focused on improving the user …
Read Storyby Brandon Carver, on Jun 8, 2021 4:45:35 AM
As 2021 marches on, Snowflake marches on. As people who live and breathe migrations, we're always looking at how the evolution of a platform impacts getting to (or migrating to) …
Read Storyby Olman Quesada, on May 20, 2021 1:41:56 PM
Summary This post offers a quick summary of steps to be executed to achieve a successful migration project from Visual Basic 6 to .NET using the Visual Basic Upgrade Companion …
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