VB Migration Partner

WHITE PAPERS

Migrating a VB6 application in 10 easy steps
- Each migration from VB6 is a story of its own, with its unique assortment of challenges and obstacles. At the same time, there all migration successful stories have many traits in common. Typically all of them can be subdivided in a few distinct steps, starting with the initial assessment, proceeding towards the zero-compilation-error and zero-runtime-error stages, and ending with the refinement and optimization stages. This whitepaper analyzes the entire process and shows which feature of VB Migration Partner can be most useful during each of these steps.

Comparing VB Migration Partner with Upgrade Wizard
- Why should you adopt VB Migration Partner when Visual Studio comes with a free VB6 conversion tool from Microsoft? Well, there isn’t such a thing as a free lunch or a free conversion software. To prove our point, we did a very simple thing: we ran the Upgrade Wizard and VB Migration Partner on the same set of VB6 open source projects, which represent a good mix of the challenges you are going to face when porting your code to VB.NET, including database access, data binding, graphics, Windows API calls, and more. The results are stunning: even before adding a single migration pragma, our tool beats the one in Visual Studio 5 to 1.

Migration tools: Feature Comparison Table
- OK, you took the decision of migrating your VB6 code to .NET using an automated tool. Your next step is selecting the right product for your needs. To help you in the decision process, we built a detailed feature table that compares the strengths and weaknesses of the three more popular VB6 conversion products on the market: Microsoft Upgrade Wizard (the free one), Artinsoft VB Upgrade Companion, and Code Architects VB Migration Partner. Rather than being a dry list of features, however, this document explains why (and if) a given characteristic is useful during the migration process, so that you can make an informed choice.

17 Reasons for Using a Support Library in Migration Scenarios
- VB Migration Partner can achieve its high success rate thanks to two factors: (1) its superior code analysis and generation engine, and (2) a powerful support library. A few developers don’t realize that all VB6 conversion tools use a support library, even if their vendors prefer not to emphasize this detail. However, VB Migration Partner’s library goes far beyond that, and offers many advantages that might not be apparent at first, such as embedded debug and trace features, performance optimizations, interoperability with VB6 apps. This white paper explains these and other advantages and provides a few insights about the future of code migration with VB Migration Partner.

Support library and code maintainability
- In addition to providing 100% functional equivalence with the original VB6 code, VB Migration Partner’s extensive support library is the key for generating code that is readable and easily maintainable. This whitepaper busts a few false myths about support libraries by comparing the concise source code that VB Migration Partner generates with the code produced by other tools that don’t rely on an equally extensive library.

Estimate migration costs for VB6 conversion software
- All real-world migrations show that the largest cost is the manpower needed to prepare the VB6 code for the migration and to modify the resulting VB.NET code to ensure full functional equivalence with the original application. For this reason it is essential that the conversion software you select simplifies the job of your developers and reduces the need for these manual adjustments. This whitepaper analyzes the factors that can affect the duration and cost of a complex migration project.

Tips for smooth migration of calls to Windows API methods
- VB Migration Partner offers tons of improvements over Upgrade Wizard when migrating VB6 code that heavily on Windows API calls. You can take a few additional steps, however, that can make the migration even easier. Learn how by reading this article.