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Team-Based VB6 Migration
Mark Baker
Not just developers are involved in a migration—testers, architects, project managers, and others often play a role. The VB6 Upgrade Assessment tool lets you consider migration efforts of the whole team.

.NET Scripting Hosts, Part X
Mark M. Baker
.NET Scripting Hosts, Part Ten; we continue looking at the three primary interfaces we need to create our smart host.

Ready-Set-Go! Your VB6 Migration
Mark M. Baker
Federico Zoufaly of Artinsoft discusses its Ready-Set-Go! methodology for migrating VB6 applications to .NET and how its extensive experience with migration was a key reason Microsoft selected Artinsoft to develop the VB6 Upgrade Wizard and provide key guidance in the VB6 Migration Guide. Learn how to approach migration as a systematic and thoughtful manner to ensure success. (MP3, 17:23 mins.)

Generics in ASP.NET
Dino Esposito
Generics can be used in ASP.NET to write neater and more strongly typed code, but ASP.NET 2.0 was not designed with generics in mind. Dino explains why.

Measuring Migration Effort
Mark M. Baker
The VB6 Upgrade Assessment tool provides three metrics to analyze the effort required to migrate your app: by resource type, by task, and by EWIs (Errors, Warnings, and Issues).

The Wizard of the VB6 Upgrade Wizard
Mark M. Baker
Federico Zoufaly of Artinsoft, the developers of the Microsoft VB6 Upgrade Wizard, describes the benefits of iterative upgrading -- refactoring your VB6 code each time to refine the result from the wizard. He also digs into the internals and improvements of the VS 2005 Upgrade Wizard. (MP3, 16:45 mins.)

An Overview of Generics
Dino Esposito
In the .NET Framework 2.0, C# and Visual Basic .NET support generics. This means that you can have a List of Integer and a List of ProductInfo, and they will be different types.

Visual Studio 2005 Team System
Jonathan Erickson
Lori Wizdo talks about Visual Studio 2005 Team System and the benefits it brings to software quality. Lori also describes how AppSight adds application problem resolution to VS 2005 Team System. (MP3, 3:51 mins.)

COM Interop
Mark M. Baker
.NET guru Juval Lowy explores how COM Interop can allow legacy VB6 applications to co-exist in a .NET world, the differences between .NET generics & C++ templates, and why reading his latest book on .NET 2.0 will help you become an advanced .NET developer. (MP3, 18:42 mins.)

VB6 Upgrade Assessment Tool and Excel
Mark M. Baker
This migration profiler generates dynamic reports in a spreadsheet format. The stats include the financial cost of migration.

WSE 3.0: Focusing on Security
Jonathan Erickson
Ari Bixhorn, Director of Web Services Strategy for Microsoft, describes some of Web Services Enhancements 3.0's new features. (MP3, 4:02 mins.)

Comparing RAD & Enterprise Development in .NET
Mark M. Baker
.NET Software Legend Juval Lowy explains how RAD and Enterprise developers bring very different perspectives to how they approach .NET technology and how this deeply affects their expectations of it. (MP3 audio, 16:51 mins.)

C++/CLI Input/Output
Rex Jaeschke
Rex covers the ABCs of reading and writing in the .NET/CLI realm, including screen and keyboard I/O, file and string I/O, and operations on files and directories.

.NET Scripting Hosts, Part Nine
Mark M. Baker
Upgrading a basic scripting host to a smart host. Here we lay out the C# definition of the IRemoteDebugApplication interface, which is the ancestor of IDebugApplication.

An Overview of Ajax.NET
Dino Esposito
Ajax.NET is an open-source ASP.NET library that greatly simplifies coding remote scripting.

Moving to .NET from VB6 and C++
Mark M. Baker
Juval Lowy discusses the different perspectives that VB6 and C++ developers bring to .NET including the challenges each group faces with the technology. (MP3 audio, 16:32 mins.)

Assessing the VB6 Assessment Tool
Mark Baker
What is the best way to determine the effort needed to migrate a legacy Visual Basic 6 application to VB.NET?

Pragmatic Exceptions
Benjamin Booth
December 2005 Pragmatic Exceptions
Tip #4: Make Only the Actionable Obvious

Windows Vista: First Impressions
Jerry Pournelle
Jerry shares his first impressions of Windows Vista.

Enterprise Application Logging
Jim Mangione
Accurately gauging the health of IT assets across applications requires true enterprise-level logging.

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Product Showcase


Open-RJ Memory Databases and C++.NET
Matthew Wilson
Matthew enhances the Open-RJ base library and dives into the details of the Open-RJ/C++.NET mapping.

Me and My Shadow
Rick Wayne
Keep your server copy piping hot with XLink's ClusterReplica, morph .NET into Java with Stryon’s iNET, and get a simpler bug tracker: Excel’s QuickBugs. Also, don't miss these four tomes from Kerievsky, Sobell, Bejtlich and a Russian troika.

Out of the Shell
Rick Wayne
The fabled MKS Toolkit lives on, enabling Microsoft OS developers and administrators to use the same bulging toolbox as their Unix brethren. Grep, vi, rlogin, find—it’s all here.

Charting New Meaning
Dennis Adams
Creating professional charts that respond well to wide ranges of data is no easy task. Fortunately, some great .NET charting engines are now available for many applications.

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Books

Programmer's Book Review
Peter Roth
Before jumping off into .NET, Peter turns to a pair of tried and tested books—Programming Microsoft .NET, by Jeff Prosise and Applied Microsoft .NET Framework Programming, by Jeffrey Richter.

Me and My Shadow
Rick Wayne
Keep your server copy piping hot with XLink's ClusterReplica, morph .NET into Java with Stryon’s iNET, and get a simpler bug tracker: Excel’s QuickBugs. Also, don't miss these four tomes from Kerievsky, Sobell, Bejtlich and a Russian troika.

Programmer's Book Review
Douglas Reilly
Douglas examines The Definitive Guide to the .NET Compact Framework, by Larry Roof and Dan Fergus, and Microsoft .NET Compact Framework: Core Reference, by Andy Wigley and Stephen Wheelwright.

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