gmBasic: Upgrade Engine

gmBasic is a powerful code transformation tool that reads, interprets, and rewrites VB6/ASP/COM systems for .NET (using C# or VB.NET). We are always improving gmBasic to make it more robust and flexible so that it produces cleaner, more correct results. This distribution, Version 30.76, includes several enhancements:

• Improves the general ability to produce accurate, build-complete .NET (C# and VB.NET) systems from VB6 code (most recently making enhancements needed to upgrade a massive ERP application with 1,366 VBPs referencing 11,739 code files containing 6.1M LOC and 65 third-party-COM components)
• Improves handling COM file references in VBP files
• Improves handling identifiers containing international characters
• Improves handling VB6 App.LogPath and App.LogMode

gmStudio: Upgrade Solution Development Environment

Powered by gmBasic, gmStudio is a development environment for creating high-performance, custom VB6/ASP/COM to .NET upgrade solutions. We are always adding functionality to gmStudio and making it easier to use. This distribution includes several enhancements:

• Improves flexibility of deployment by allowing the user to specify .NET project file and folder naming conventions as part of each gmStudio project's settings
• Improves resolution of Translation Script location for EXE tasks
• Improves passing command line arguments for EXE tasks
• Improves whole file search when matches are found at start of line
• Improves project re-location logic to allow moving from one drive to another
• Improves reporting of Warning and Note messages in the Translation Log Report
• Improves support for MSBuild and VS2017
• Improves ScriptRule feature so Compile\Refactor commands are automatically placed after Compile\Fix commands
• Improves error handling when Authoring COM Interface Descriptions from a TypeLibs.lst file
• Improves handling of international characters in script and log files
• Corrects problem with saving user defaults changes
• Corrects SyntaxHighlighter to color comments before strings
• Improves efficiency of running metrics reports from New Project Wizard
• Improves New Project Wizard to include Metrics details in Project Review results

gmSLAPI: a .NET API for Developing Advanced Upgrade Solutions

Powered by gmBasic, gmslAPI is a .NET API for automating the gmBasic upgrade engine and accessing the semantic models produced by our unique linguistic compilation technology. gmSLAPI also includes classes to facilitate integrating with gmStudio and managing complex upgrade rules. The API was updated to reflect the latest product improvements and conventions.

Sample Upgrade Rules

gmStudio ships with a collection of sample upgrade rules that can be used to add custom features to your upgrade solution. These XML documents and gmSL scripts are distributed as source that you may modify to fit your unique requirements. The sample rules were updated to reflect the latest product improvements and conventions.

• Improves Tab Dialog Control (TabDlg32.ocx) Migration
• Improves support for Scripting (scrrun.dll) Migration

Sample Upgrade Solutions

Great Migrations publishes a number of sample VB6/ASP upgrade solutions to illustrate the capabilities of gmStudio. The sample upgrade solutions were updated to reflect the latest product improvements and conventions.