I have an old VB6 project (DLL) that someone wants converted to VB.NET. It's been a long time since I've worked with VB6, and I've never done VB.NET, though I've done enough C#. I've read up on the ...

Mobilize.net recently upgraded its Visual Basic migration tool, Visual Basic Upgrade Companion, to support Visual Studio 2017. VBUC 7.2, according to the company, provides 100-percent Visual Basic 6.0 ...

First off I know VB6 pretty well so I went to try out VB.net that we are testing on a computer at school and holy shit it's all different. Like Unload Me doesn't work and frmwhatever.show doesn't ...

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VB.NET changes the way you write Visual Basic code. You learn quickly that most of the optimization tricks you've learned for VB6 won't work under VB.NET. For example, .NET memory allocation forces ...