by 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 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 John Browne, on Aug 19, 2020 5:00:00 AM
VBUC version 8.3 now supports .NET Core and is available for download today. There's a lot to unpack there, so let's get started. VBUC (Visual Basic Upgrade Companion) is, of …
Read Storyby Mauricio Rojas, on Jul 6, 2020 12:02:50 PM
Visual Studio App Center lets you automate and manage the lifecycle of your iOS, Android, Windows, and macOS apps. Ship apps more frequently, at higher-quality, and with greater confidence. App …
Read Storyby Mauricio Rojas, on Apr 20, 2020 5:04:03 PM
If you are doing a VB6 migration it is usually better to migrate your application and all your dependencies at once. But there might be scenarios where you need to …
Read Storyby Mauricio Rojas, on Mar 24, 2020 11:07:05 AM
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 …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Feb 13, 2020 5:12:36 PM
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 …
Read Storyby Will Vasquez, on Feb 3, 2020 11:25:50 AM
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 …
Read Storyby 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 …
Read Storyby 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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