Your First Upgrade

Part II

Upgrading Applications

Chapter 5

Your First Upgrade

In Part I, we explored the differences between Microsoft Visual Basic 6 and Visual Basic .NET, looked at the different upgrading options, and covered how to prepare your Visual Basic 6 application for the upgrade to Visual Basic .NET. Now it s time to begin talking about the how-to of upgrading. This chapter walks you through the process of using the Upgrade Wizard to upgrade a simple project and examining what your new Visual Basic .NET project looks like. It also introduces you to techniques for fixing problems with the upgraded project and discusses some advanced upgrading techniques such as upgrading project groups and using the VB6 Snippet Upgrade add-in.