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- Variant, Late Binding
- Array Conventions
- String Functions
- Collections
- Option Strict or not?
- Error Handling – do you want to use try-catch instead
- Printing
- Gosub/Goto
- Conditional Compilation
- COM
- etc.
2. What issues have you seen with a toolset like Sheridan and converting it to a new platform like VB.net native tools?
- component conventions -- mask edit, date formats,
- FRX data
- Event models
- etc.
3. What issues have you seen with data access code conversions?
- Depends on if you use ADO-look-alike wrapper
- Schema data handled differently -- datacolumns/row array versus fields collection
- Navigateion behavior
- Server-side vs Client-side cursors
- Events
- Error collections
- Connection Properties
- UPdate/BatchUpdate
- Behind the SQL scenes commands
- etc.
4. What issues have you seen with web service usage conversions?
- Can you elaborate on this?
- SOAP?
- MSXML.HTTP
- etc.
5. What UI issues have come about?
- Form Lifetime
- Form Class as a variable
- Control Arrays
- Events
- DDE
- Drag and Drop
- MDI Menu Merging
- Certain Intrinsic UI controls: data control, file system lists
- Style Inheritance
- Twips vs Pixel;s
- etc.
6. What is our approach to resolving these issues? Design pattern, tools, etc.
- Language Specification
- Object Model Specification
- Runtime support code -- buy, bulid, borrow
- etc.
7. How can we ensure that our approach will reduce risk and save time?
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12. What clients have you done VB6 to VB.net migrations with? Can you provide a write up for the government clients or large clients for a Feasibility "feasibility of Approachapproach".
- HMX
- ISAC