Migrating to .NET: A Pragmatic Path to Visual Basic .NET, Visual C++ .NET, and ASP.NET By Dhananjay Katre, Prashant Halari, Narayana Rao Surapaneni, Manu Gupta, Meghana Deshpande
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Chapter 3. Visual Basic to Visual Basic .NET Migration Approach
Migration of any Visual Basic 6.0 application to Visual Basic .NET requires the following major steps:
Perform an assessment based on project selection guidelines
Perform changes based on pre-migration recommendations (covered in detail later in this chapter)
With the help of the upgrade wizard, upgrade the Visual Basic 6.0 application to Visual Basic .NET
Perform changes based on post-migration recommendations (covered in detail in Chapter 4)
The path for migrating a Visual Basic 6.0 application to Visual Basic .NET is represented in Figure 3-1. Brief descriptions for each of these steps are given in the subsequent subsections.
Figure 3-1. Phases of Migration to Visual Basic .NET.