December 2001
Intermediate to advanced
360 pages
9h 6m
English
Content preview from A Programmer's Introduction to Visual Basic® .NET
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The Upgrade Process
When upgrading your applications, there is a process you should consider following. It is
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Learn VB .NET
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Pick a small project and make sure that it works
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Upgrade the project and examine the upgrade report
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Fix any outstanding items in VB .NET
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Learn VB .NET
One reason this chapter is after all the chapters on the changes from VB to VB .NET is because you have to learn VB .NET before you can successfully upgrade a project. The reason for this is that the Upgrade Wizard can't do it all. There are too many programming styles and too many ambiguities in VB6 (especially with late-bound objects), and the Upgrade Wizard can't handle every situation. Therefore, you have to make sure that you can look at your upgraded ...