Who Should Read This Book

Who Should Read This Book

This book is written for the Visual Basic developer who wants to upgrade applications from Visual Basic 6 to Visual Basic .NET. Although we focus on Visual Basic 6, most of the information is also relevant for applications written in earlier versions of Visual Basic, since Visual Basic 6 is essentially a superset of Visual Basic versions 1 through 5.

The content of this book ranges from intermediate to advanced. For example, the chapter on fixing problems with VB Application Wizard projects will probably appeal to more intermediate developers, whereas the one on upgrading COM+ services will be of interest to highly experienced developers.

Two areas of upgrading that we don t discuss are user controls and WebClasses. As this book went to press, Microsoft had not yet added this functionality to the Upgrade Wizard it s coming sometime in the future. If you re upgrading these technologies, we hope you ll still find the information in this book useful, since most of the forms material applies equally to user controls, and the chapters on language apply universally to every project you upgrade.