VB6 to VB.Net Upgraded Upgrade Help – Yes, you are not alone (in your VB6’ness)…

Beth Massi - Sharing the goodness that is VB - Free VB6 Migration Tool & Updated VB Developer Center

“Jason Zander just announced some exciting work that we’ve been doing for developers trying to migrate their Visual Basic 6 apps!

Good News for VB6 Migration

Today we re-launched our VBRun Resource Center for VB6 developers and announced a partner tool from Artinsoft, the Visual Basic Upgrade Companion [VBUC] that you can get for FREE. Check out the details here:

Download your FREE version of VBUC with code ‘MSDN’

You’ll also notice that we integrated the VBRun resources into it’s own tab on the Visual Basic Developer Center. If you haven’t checked out VBRun, it’s all about providing the best migration strategies, tools, support info, and training to help you on your gradual path from VB6 to .NET.

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Visual Basic Development Center – VBRun

VBRun - ArtinSoft’s Visual Basic Upgrade Companion (VBUC)

“ArtinSoft’s Visual Basic Upgrade Companion (VBUC) is the industry-leading tool for the migration of Visual Basic 6 to both Visual Basic .NET and C#. With a proven track record of millions of lines of code upgraded to Microsoft’s .NET Framework, the VBUC helps you move your business critical applications out of obsolescence, free of ties to third-party dependencies.

If you are looking towards taking advantage of new Microsoft technologies, reducing development, deployment and maintenance costs, and addressing compliance issues or meeting market demands, the VBUC is the most advanced and cost-effective solution out there.

Exciting Offer for You!

Microsoft and ArtinSoft have partnered to offer a free VBUC license to you. The discount code below can be used to purchase a license that will allow you to migrate an application of up to 10,000 lines of VB6 code to VB.NET or C# for free. It can also be applied when purchasing a larger license.

Download your copy today. Use the code MSDN for a free license for up to 10,000 lines of code! …

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I love the name for this resource…lol

So you saw the “…up to 10,000 lines of code…” did you? Knew there was a catch? Well it might be a catch, but the retail price for that version of the utility is $799, so catch or not it’s a pretty darn good deal!

 
(When placing the “order” is kind of looks like you have to enter CC information. You don’t! When you finish filling out the form, before you enter your CC info, just hit submit…)

Next you scoff at the thought of upgrading your VB6 code to .Net? Feel, as I do, that code that old, with likely that much technical debt, should probably be re-written from the ground up? Then that ugly thing called “reality” comes knocking. What we like and what we end up having to do can be two very different things.

Yes, I have upgraded VB6 code to .Net. And yes, we’re using it in production today… Am I happy? Not 100%, but it works, saved me months of effort, allowed me to solve my user’s problems faster and let me move that code on to a modern framework. All in all, I call it a win. But will I do it with the rest of my VB6 code? That, I don’t know… (Give me a break, at least I’ve finally moved all my VB6 code from SourceSafe to TFS! LOL)