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Support WebCast: Upgrading Projects from Visual Basic 6.0 to Visual Basic .NET

Article ID: 324818

Article Last Modified on 8/9/2004

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Microsoft Visual Basic .NET 2002 Standard Edition

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Session Summary

In this session, we will discuss how to upgrade projects from Visual Basic 6.0 to Visual Basic .NET. We will start with an overview of what has changed in Visual Basic, and then explain why and when you should upgrade. We will then talk about how to use the upgrade wizard, what the common upgrade issues are, and how to fix them.

This is a Level 200 session that was recorded March 14, 2002 and presented by Ed Robinson. Ed Robinson is a Program Manager in the Visual Basic .NET team at Microsoft. Ed's responsibilities include designing the upgrade technologies built into Visual Basic .NET, designing the upgrade tool, and working with customers moving their applications to .NET. He has more than 11 years of industry experience and is a regular speaker at development conferences throughout the world. Ed has a number of white papers published on the MSDN Web site, and plays an active role at Microsoft developing training material for Visual Studio .NET. He is currently finishing his first book, Upgrading Visual Basic 6 to Visual Basic .NET.

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