by 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 …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Mar 16, 2021 1:01:10 PM
I was fooling around with Google Maps the other day and got to thinking it would be cool to visually show where our customers are around the world. Google Maps …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Feb 25, 2021 6:30:00 AM
We have some excellent news for those of you still hanging on to old ASP.NET Web Forms apps. Finally there's an alternative to rewriting them from scratch to get off …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Jan 26, 2021 5:00:00 AM
Let's talk Silverlight--specifically how the heck do you get off it without pulling all your hair out? Well, because Silverlight is SO old, perhaps we need a brief refresher before …
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