Step 1: First off, you need to validate your dev/test environment and reconcile the differences with production. It sounds like test contains an in-progress release. Figure out what things are out...

LizR,
I am not arguing about where we are going, just trying to share my opinion on different ways to get there.

I agree whole heartedly that it would be pointless to move bad VB6 code directly...

Most VB6 codes I see make extensive use of objects and many larger systems involve multiple inter-related VBPs communicating through COM.

With the tool-assisted rewrite approach the real work of...

What I meant was you would refer to the original VB6 during the manual rewrite -- not after.

You can only get so much detail about what the app is supposed to do from your requirements...

You hit the nail on the head! What can be improved? That is the question! What is wrong with the current application, what *specifically* is wrong with this translation? What are the new...

I agree it is very difficult to write a VB6 converter; after all a "real converter" must at minimum be a VB6/COM compiler and VB6/COM is a pretty hefty platform.

I can only speak to my personal...

I been there, done that too and I am not trying to understate the expertise and effort needed to migrate real world VB6 codes to .NET. But let me clarify this: I am talking about large corporate or...

As others have rightly pointed out, you will find things you want to change in automated translations -- much the same as you would find things to rework during a manual rewrite. Fortunately, there...

I also found this a couple years ago and it is absolutely a must have -- one of the first things I install on any workstation where I will be doing VB6.

Kudos to you for taking time to share it...

I have not heard of any automated tools to help with this and I do not think any will be coming. You will have to do most of it my hand; forms/user controls are completely different in terms of how...

Here is a little more detail on what I am trying to do:

I am writing a tool to translate VB6 to .NET. I want to transform an arbitrary block of property bag data for an ActiveX control (in an...

Does any one know if there are published standards for writing state to the hidden code in a VB6 form file. For example, below is how one ActiveX component writes its state. Are there any rules...

I need to dynamically create and persist the state of ActiveX controls. The Visual Studio designer can do this at design time, but I need to be able to do it at run time. I need some pointers on...