You know you're in trouble when your critical legacy system is so old no one remembers the name of the language...
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You know you're in trouble when your critical legacy system is so old no one remembers the name of the language...
Read MoreTopics: Digital Transformation
Citrix was recently in the news for both good reasons and bad ones. Their stock price is soaring as people suddenly have to work from home to avoid spreading the coronavirus. And a United States Senator is coming under scrutiny for buying a lot of Citrix right after a committee briefing on the pandemic.
Read MoreTopics: application modernization, desktop apps, Citrix, virtualization
While doing a migration from ASP Classic to ASP.NET we encountered some usages of the "no-store" CacheControl.
Read MoreTopics: Visual Basic Upgrade Companion, ASP.NET/MVC, ASP, migration, upgrade
Blazor (the technology, not the piece of clothing) is a client-side framework that enables rich web UI using C# (and HTML and CSS) vs JavaScript. As you can imagine, every developer is ecstatic to dropkick JavaScript. There hasn’t been this much excitement around a UI framework since, well, JavaScript. What makes Blazor so powerful and appealing is that it offers a single UI programming model that is learned once and can be applied anywhere (web, mobile, etc.)
Read MoreTopics: .NET, .NET Core, mobile, migration, Blazor, WebAssembly, browser, webforms
These are extraordinary times.
Read MoreTopics: COVID-19
A migration project, as most things related to Software, is not a trivial undertaking.
Read MoreTopics: Modernization, migration services
Not going to bury this lead1: Microsoft's latest update has stopped some VB6 apps from working.
Read MoreTopics: Visual Basic, Microsoft, Windows security, VBUC, application security
Topics: software development, Mobile Application Development, Digital Transformation
A client contacted us to understand why is the VBUC a paid tool when there's a free conversion tool (Visual Basic Upgrade Wizard or VBUW) available in old versions of Visual Studio. Moreover, the client wants to convert their application to C#, and the free tool generates only VB.Net.
Read MoreTopics: VBUC
Ok. Let go back a few years into early 90s, those great years just after the Rick Astley hits (“Never gonna give you up…”).
Read MoreTopics: application migration, Visual Basic Upgrade Companion, VB6, ASP, COM, IIS
