December 2001
Intermediate to advanced
360 pages
9h 6m
English
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The Visual Basic Compatibility Library
If you look in the Solution Explorer window and expand the References node, you'll see a reference to the Microsoft.VisualBasic.Compatibility library. This library is provided to make it easier to move from VB6 to VB .NET. In a normal VB .NET project, you would have to add a reference to the library yourself. Any project that is upgraded, however, has the library added automatically.
The compatibility library contains classes and helper methods that allow the upgrade tool to upgrade your application more smoothly. For example, it includes TwipsPerPixelX and TwipsToPixelsX functions for working with screen resolutions, and control array extenders that give control array functionality to Windows forms.
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