While doing a migration from ASP Classic to ASP.NET we encountered some usages of the "no-store" CacheControl. In ASP Classic the accepted values for CacheControl are: Value Description Private A …

Not going to bury this lead1: Microsoft's latest update has stopped some VB6 apps from working. Yeah. That day we always knew was going to come some day? Well, turns …

Some Context 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

What are helper classes? When you convert code from VB6 to .NET, some elements from the source application don't have a direct equivalent in the target platform. To bridge this …

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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 …

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 …