I've decided to share, in a series of blog posts, what I have learned about upgrading from previous versions of Visual Basic to VB.NET.
This week my company, aZ Software Developers, will begin our forty-sixth Visual Basic upgrade project. This project is for a new client. This client employs 4 Visual Basic 6 programmers. Thirty-two of our upgrade projects have been for clients who employ five or less full-time VB programmers.
Having worked almost 100% of the time with .NET since 2001, and having been a participant in almost four dozen Visual Basic to VB.NET migrations, I believe I have some information that MAY be of value to SOME of those folks considering, planning, or implementing an upgrade from a previous version of Visual Basic to Visual Basic in .NET.
In this blog series I will be presenting the 'evolutionary' process for moving from earlier versions of Visual Basic to VB.NET that has worked best for us and our clients. An evolutionary process is a process in which something passes by degrees to a more advanced stage. From our experiences we have found that 'evolving', as opposed to 'upgrading' or 'migrating', is the far superior way to advance Visual Basic programmers and systems to VB.NET.
I hope our process will be useful to you.
Mike McIntyre