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by Mauricio Rojas, on Jan 31, 2020 6:26:36 AM

Ok. Let go back a few years into early 90s, those great years just after the Rick Astley hits (“Never gonna give you up…”). At that time, if you where …

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by Mauricio Rojas, on Dec 12, 2019 7:17:45 AM

Scott Hanselman is one of my geek heroes. So when I saw his excellent post I said to myself "it is useless to resist"!! So, I took our legendary Salmon …

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by Mauricio Rojas, on Nov 26, 2019 10:02:59 AM

Usually when we modernize legacy VB6, Delphi or PowerBuilder apps some parts of the migrated application depend on using a device which is attached to the client using the app …

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Topics:application modernizationVisual BasicVB6WindowsPowerBuilderWebMAPAngularmigration servicesdesktop

by Mauricio Rojas, on Nov 13, 2019 3:44:44 PM

In VB6, you need VBControlExtender object for dynamically adding a control to the Controls collection using the Add method. For example for adding a MSFlexGrid dynamically to a form you …

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by Will Vasquez, on Jul 22, 2019 5:20:00 AM

Whenever you're trying to convert a VB6 or Classic ASP application to .NET with the Visual Basic Upgrade Companion it is recommended that you do so in an environment where …

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by Will Vasquez, on Jul 17, 2019 1:34:48 PM

Understanding the new code structure You finally migrated your VB6 application using the Visual Basic Upgrade Companion. Now you have a WinForms application, but since you're just getting started with …

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Topics:Visual BasicVB6VBUCVisual StudioWinforms

by John Browne, on Oct 23, 2018 7:45:00 AM

Eike Michel had a problem. The Director of Research and Development at Aucotec, in Hannover, Germany, was responsible for a 18 year old VB6 program that was a critical piece …

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by John Browne, on Jun 20, 2017 1:55:46 PM

Without a doubt, one of the more interesting and powerful features of VB6 was its integration with Microsoft Office. That integration opened up a vast set of capabilities for working …

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by John Browne, on Jun 14, 2017 5:21:16 PM

ICYMI, we've compiled a list of the most popular and useful blog posts of all time. There's lots of practical (and technical) advice on recycling your old code. Read on …

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by John Browne, on Jun 8, 2017 3:23:06 PM

VB6: will it ever go away? Maybe not--the current (June 2017) TIOBE index shows Visual Basic (not VB.NET) at #16 (down from 11th a year ago). Maybe that sounds irrelevant, …

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