Author(s): Ed Robinson, Michael Bond, Robert Ian Oliver
Publisher: MS Press
Year: 2002
ISBN: 073561587X
Language: English
File type: CHM
Size (for download): 4.9 MB
Many articles have appeared in the press about Visual Basic .NET being radically different from prior versions of Visual Basic. Unfortunately, most of the articles leave you with more questions than answers. What exactly are the changes in Visual Basic .NET? Will it be possible to upgrade existing applications? Why does it break compatibility with Visual Basic 6? Visual Basic .NET includes an Upgrade Wizard, which upgrades up to 95 percent of your project’s code, but what about the other 5 percent? What are the common upgrade issues? How do you resolve them and get your project working in Visual Basic .NET? What about XML Web services and ADO.NET data access—how can existing programs take advantage of these new features?
In this book, we answer these questions and more. We provide a complete guide to upgrading, with both technical and conceptual information. To upgrade your applications, you will need to learn some new skills. We teach these skills and discuss the hows, whats, and whys of upgrading: how to recognize the micro-issues that need a one-line fix, what to do about macro-issues that involve redesign of your application, and why MS made the changes to Visual Basic.
In addition to discussing how to upgrade applications, this book is also an upgrading reference. Chapter 8 includes the complete list of errors and warnings that the Upgrade Wizard generates. Chapter 19 maps the MS Windows common controls to equivalent Windows Forms controls. Appendixes A and B give the complete Visual Basic function and object model mappings from Visual Basic 6 to Visual Basic .NET.
This book is written for the Visual Basic developer who wants to upgrade applications from Visual Basic 6 to Visual Basic .NET. Although we focus on Visual Basic 6, most of the information is also relevant for applications written in earlier versions of Visual Basic, since Visual Basic 6 is essentially a superset of Visual Basic versions 1 through 5.
The content of this book ranges from intermediate to advanced. For example, the chapter on fixing problems with VB Application Wizard projects will probably appeal to more intermediate developers, whereas the one on upgrading COM+ services will be of interest to highly experienced developers.
TABLE OF CONTENT:
Part 1 - Introduction to Upgrading
Part 2 - Upgrading Applications
Part 3 - Getting Your Project Working
Part 4 - Techniques for Adding Value
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