Migrating from Visual Basic 6 to Visual Basic .NET
The migration from Visual Basic 6 to Visual Basic .NET has been covered in many introductory texts on Visual Basic, so this section will not cover the basics. Instead, we will focus on deciding when it makes sense to move a Web Service based on the Microsoft SOAP Toolkit (STK) to Visual Basic .NET.
After doing a lot of work with the Microsoft SOAP Toolkit and .NET Web Services, I have come up with only one hard rule that tells me when to migrate the Web Service. If the Web Service needs to handle a good number of complex types, you will find that your time is better spent migrating the code to .NET. As a developer, you will want to get comfortable with .NET at some point in time, and your purchase ...
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