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I have been developing software since 1985 on many different platforms and in a variety of roles. I presently own and operate Great Migrations LLC. We develop and sell software translation technologies. Our present focus is helping people with VB6/ASP/COM…
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 | 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 they defined and wired up. That said, some of the …  |
| | Disclaimer: I help people migrate from VB6 to .NET for a living. I agree with Oxiegen: in general you should consider avoiding COM components. Compared to working with managed components, COM components/controls are harder to debug, they tend to be less sophisticated/flexible, they require special security permissions to access, and … |
| | In reality VB6 is much more object-oriented than people give it credit for -- complex object models and most OO design patterns can be implemented quite easily in VB6 given the support for user-defined classes, interfaces and late binding. If you knew OO, and you had VB6 at your disposal, … |
| | 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 of sync with Prod and which how/if they are supposed to be finished and move to prod. Step 2: … |
| | 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 are some translation tools that are designed to be customized. If you invest time designing your … |
 | 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 with others! I should have done the same. |
| | 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 how to dynamically load a control into an AxHost wrapper and … |
| | 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 about how this relates to the COM interface or is it up to the … |
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