by John Browne, on Jun 20, 2017 1:55:46 PM
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 …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Mar 21, 2017 6:00:00 AM
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 …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Nov 8, 2016 4:17:16 PM
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 …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Sep 21, 2016 8:00:00 AM
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 …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Aug 26, 2016 8:05:04 AM
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 …
Read Storyby 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, …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Oct 21, 2015 6:00:00 AM
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" …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Jul 15, 2014 2:36:00 PM
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 …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Dec 19, 2013 3:02:00 PM
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 …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Nov 13, 2013 1:00:00 AM
We're excited today to announce the availability of Visual Basic Upgrade Companion 2013, which we're shipping simultaneously with Visual Studio 2013. What's new? The most obvious change is that we …
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