For those of you who may not have the time or inclination to go through all 700 pages of the guide I mentioned in my last post , you want to start with this short article: Preparing Your Visual Basic 6.0 Applications for the Upgrade to Visual Basic 2005

My interview with DevSource is now available online. This interview is rather extensive - Esther managed to get me going by asking me about 3 of my greatest passions: VB, Data Access, and Patterns & Practices. We also touched on some other topics as well.

Last week, I posted about the availability of the new set of application blocks in the form of the Enterprise Library . While I am still very excited about these blocks, and am already working to incorporate them in 2 current projects, there was one major disappointment. When I opened the code for these...

Speaking of ISVs and VS 2005 ... One of my current areas of expertise and interest in migrating VB6 developers and projects to .NET. Over the past 2 years I have had the opportunity to have many formal and informal discussions and consulting engagements on this topic, including my VB Upgrade Tour through...

I'll be doing 2 sessions at VSLive! in San Francisco this year. One on Data Access Strategies and Tactics and the other on VB.NET Worst Practices . I'm looking foward to getting together with friends and colleagues as well as checking out the content (and reactions) to the special full day on Indigo...

For those of you who may not have the time or inclination to go through all 700 pages of the guide I mentioned in my last post , you want to start with this short article: Preparing Your Visual Basic 6.0 Applications for the Upgrade to Visual Basic 2005

My interview with DevSource is now available online. This interview is rather extensive - Esther managed to get me going by asking me about 3 of my greatest passions: VB, Data Access, and Patterns & Practices. We also touched on some other topics as well.

Last week, I posted about the availability of the new set of application blocks in the form of the Enterprise Library . While I am still very excited about these blocks, and am already working to incorporate them in 2 current projects, there was one major disappointment. When I opened the code for these...

Speaking of ISVs and VS 2005 ... One of my current areas of expertise and interest in migrating VB6 developers and projects to .NET. Over the past 2 years I have had the opportunity to have many formal and informal discussions and consulting engagements on this topic, including my VB Upgrade Tour through...

I'll be doing 2 sessions at VSLive! in San Francisco this year. One on Data Access Strategies and Tactics and the other on VB.NET Worst Practices . I'm looking foward to getting together with friends and colleagues as well as checking out the content (and reactions) to the special full day on Indigo...