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by John Browne, on Oct 4, 2016 11:15:28 AM

You may be troubled by the seeming complexity of web applications compared to a relatively-simple Windows desktop (ie .NET or VB) app. I hear this from time to time when …

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by John Browne, on Jun 1, 2016 10:21:28 AM

Recently I had the opportunity to spend some time with a customer for whom we had just completed a migration. One of the things we discussed was the economic issues …

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Topics:application modernization

by John Browne, on May 12, 2016 10:27:57 AM

In the first part of this series, we spent some time discussing how complex web application coding can be. Web sites are simple; web apps are hard. The good news …

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Topics:MVCWindowsWeb Application DevelopmentWebMAP

by John Browne, on May 3, 2016 7:00:00 AM

Historically we at Mobilize have focused on tools to transform app source code from one desktop platform to another, newer, desktop platform--the best known of these is VBUC which moves …

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Topics:MVCWeb Application DevelopmentWebMAP

by John Browne, on Mar 2, 2016 4:52:07 PM

The last big company I worked at (Microsoft) had a LOT of desktops (as you can well imagine). And of course they also had a lot of internal apps that …

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Topics:application modernizationC#Web Application Development

by John Browne, on Feb 17, 2016 4:00:00 AM

When you assign version numbers to software, you usually need a pretty good reason to change the first digit. Well today's one of those days. VBUC 7.0, available now here, …

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Topics:VBUC

by John Browne, on Feb 4, 2016 9:41:55 AM

Ok, 2016 is a leap year which means February has an extra day, right? But did you know that there could be another leap year bug waiting to happen on …

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Topics:Extras

by John Browne, on Dec 9, 2015 6:00:00 AM

Recently a customer wrote us, saying "Hey, if Microsoft says VB6 is still supported and will be for years and years, why should I worry? Why bother to migrate my …

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Topics:application modernizationVisual BasicVB6

by John Browne, on Dec 3, 2015 10:00:00 AM

The Mobilize.Net Silverlight Bridge is now released for general availability. This tool, which greatly reduces the effort to transform Windows Silverlight Phone 8.x code to the new Universal Windows Platform …

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Topics:Windows

by John Browne, on Nov 10, 2015 6:24:26 PM

Today I'm excited to tell you about the newest release of WebMAP (ie WebMAP3), with support for the popular AngularJS framework and Bootstrap for styling. When we first built WebMAP …

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Topics:HTML5C#WebMAPAngular

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