How much time have you spent thinking seriously about your migration needs? Have you had a formal review and analysis of the pros and cons of migration for individual applications in use at your company? When all is said and done, how many lines of VB6 code (ballpark estimate) do you expect to migrate to .NET? Tell us what you think in the talk.editors.devx discussion group.
So how hard is it really to upgrade a VB6 application to VB.NET? Harder than you think. Get a realistic appraisal of what's involved in migration from Federico Zoufaly, the man at the center of the .NET migration universe.
by Lori Piquet, Editor-in-Chief
February 20, 2002
or all the functional enhancements that .NET brings to a developer's world and the excitement one might be feeling about putting these advances into practice, the truth is that this is not exactly a golden age for Visual Basic 6 developers. If you have a significant VB6 code base that you might like to bring to the .NET platform, the next year to two years promises to bring you a measure of pain the likes of which you've never quite experienced professionally before.
Oh sure, it's fun to dream about Web-enabling all those Windows apps, to imagine deploying this bit and that as a Web service, but getting there is not for the faint of heart. In fact, in the resource-constrained, post-amputation wards that are the majority of corporate America's post-layoff IT departments, it may not be attainable for even the flintiest of souls. Bottom line: if you think—even have a dreamy flicker of hope—that you will be migrating enterprise VB6 apps to .NET you had best start by evaluating your resolve and your resources. You will not succeed without plenty of both.
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or all the functional enhancements that .NET brings to a developer's world and the excitement one might be feeling about putting these advances into practice, the truth is that this is not exactly a golden age for Visual Basic 6 developers. If you have a significant VB6 code base that you might like to bring to the .NET platform, the next year to two years promises to bring you a measure of pain the likes of which you've never quite experienced professionally before. 
