We just keep makin' it better. Today we're deeply pleased to announce the general availability of version 8.0 of the Visual Basic Upgrade Companion, the world's most-used legacy migration tool …

Without a doubt, one of the more interesting and powerful features of VB6 was its integration with Microsoft Office. That integration opened up a vast set of capabilities for working …

In our continuing struggle to make the world safe from nasty old legacy code, we are happy today to announce the availability of VBUC version 7.2, designed to help you …

This is a story of three friends who built houses. Sooner or later this will get around to something to do with code. One of the friends (let's call him …

In our on-going efforts to rid the world of VB6 we have now released version 7.1 of the Visual Basic Upgrade Companion, which includes some notable improvements. If you want …

In past blogs we've talked about when automated migration of legacy apps makes sense compared to a full rewrite--usually when you have significant business logic in the code which you …

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, …

When I worked in the Visual C++ (now Visual Studio) group at Microsoft, one of the breakthroughs came when our fearless leader, Denis Gilbert, insisted we "eat our own dogfood" …

There's been a strong push by the user community to open-source VB6 in order to ensure a better future for both the language and the developers. In early June, Microsoft …

Over the last several months we've built some interesting content to help you think about converting legacy code as well as thoughts on mobile application development. Click on the links …