Tuesday, April 05, 2005
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New VB site: VBRun
Microsoft has a strong commitment (and strong incentive) to helping the VB6 community move into VB.NET. Many features in Whidbey (Visual Studio 2005) are specifically geared toward making VB.NET more accessible to existing VB6 developers. In preparation for the Visual Studio 2005 release, Microsoft has dedicated people to the job of coming up with ways to help people move.
 
The new VBRun web site is one of the first big moves in that direction. This site is all about VB6 today, and how to make VB6 work with VB.NET. No one, least of all Microsoft, expects the move to happen instantly and this site tries to bring a level of fusion between VB6 and VB.NET.
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Tuesday, April 05, 2005 4:27:19 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [1]  |  Related posts:
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Wednesday, April 06, 2005 6:03:13 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
This is very interesting because I work at a company that is using .NET for web sites, but still has a couple of VB6 applications and it is so difficult to find the time to start moving those to .NET.

I am curious as to how many companies are in a similar position. I was at a talk by a Microsoft speaker last night (Steve Turner) and he asked the audience how many people were not using .NET at all yet. There was one sheepish hand went up out of about 30 people.

Are most companies implementing apps entirely in .NET now or is the VB6 legacy more alive than people like to let on?

Phillip
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