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The Multi-Unit Script report is used for preparing a baseline Translation Script for a web site translation task. Beware that running this report also adds a task that references the multi-unit script to your migration project. You will have to edit the script before you run the full site translation. Additional details on ASP migration can be found in the Preparation section.
GlobalStub Script
VB6/ASP/COM systems typically depend on one or more COM APIs that provide platform services such as database access, file system access, XML handling, UI controls, etc. When upgrading an application to a new platform, the way the application requests and consumes platform services must change. This is a very important consideration for VB6/ASP/COM to .NET upgrade work since each COM API requires an effective upgrade strategy.
In the early stages of an upgrade project, the upgrade strategies for COM APIs may not yet be certain. To prevent this uncertainty from blocking initial upgrade work, gmStudio helps teams generate a .NET stub framework to satisfy COM dependencies. This stub framework may be used for the initial builds of the .NET code.
The <Select BuildFile="option" /> command controls how the COM framework is generated and linked to upgraded application projects. A typical upgrade project proceeds from BuildFile=local, to BuildFile=global, to BuildFile=off as COM replacement strategies are resolved and implemented.
- When BuildFile=local, the COM dependencies are satisfied by COM stub files. These files are specific to each application project and are deployed with and referenced directly by each project.
- When BuildFile=global, the COM dependencies are satisfied by separate COM stub assemblies. A stub assembly is generated for each COM API and contains the API needed to satisfy the combined dependencies of a set of .NET application projects. Using BuildFile=global is a requirement for upgrading multiple inter-related projects that share COM dependencies. These dependencies must be satisfied by a consolidated set of assemblies rather than by separate files embedded in the individual .NET projects.
- Finally, when BuildFile=off, the COM dependencies are satisfied by separate assemblies as defined by the user, possibly interop assemblies, or other pre-existing assemblies, such as third-party .NET APIs.
The report generates a GlobalStubs script for the selected upgrade tasks (VBPs) and adds it to your project. The script tells gmBasic to, analyze COM dependencies across a set of upgraded projects and generate the code for the COM stub assembly projects that will satisfy those dependencies. The generated file will also contain the .NET build commands needed to compile the stub assembly projects.
Target Code Scan
The results of searching the generated units for user-defined lists of regex patterns. The list of patterns to search for is in CodeScanList.txt file. See Search Panel
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