.NET Migration Learning Guide

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Updated: Feb 12, 2007 — This learning guide provides experienced Visual Basic 6 developers with a one-stop source for .NET migration information. If you haven't made the move to .NET yet, now is the time to pump new life into your existing Visual Basic skills. Learn what .NET is all about and extend your skills with our collection of primers, FAQs, guides, articles, book chapters, webcasts and much more. Take a moment to e-mail us to let us know what other guides you'd like to see on SearchVB.com.

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Migration Quickstart    Visual Basic .NET Articles    Visual Basic .NET Fundamentals    Upgrading from VB6 to VB.NET    Migration Webcasts    VB.NET Specification    Newsgroups and Forums     VISIT OUR OTHER LEARNING GUIDES

Migration Quickstart

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• Expert Knowledgebase: Programming and .NET Development with John Robbins (TechTarget.com)
• Article: Preparing your Visual Basic 6.0 applications for the upgrade to Visual Basic .NET (Microsoft)
• Article: Designing an application migration strategy for Visual Basic 6.0 to Visual Basic .NET (Microsoft)
• Overview: Changes from VB6 to VB.NET (4guysfromrolla.com)
• Guide: Visual Basic language changes (Microsoft)
• Overview: What's new in Visual Basic (Microsoft)
• Guide: Essential components of Visual Basic .NET (Microsoft)
• Guide: OOP in Visual Basic .NET (Microsoft)
• Guide: Multithreading in Visual Basic .NET (Microsoft)
• Guide: Exception Handling (Microsoft)

Visual Basic .NET Articles

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• Learning Guide: Choosing VB.NET or C# (SearchVB.com)
• Learning Guide: Object-Oriented Programming in VB.NET (SearchVB.com)
• Quiz: What do you know about VB 6 migration? (SearchVB.com)
• Article: Can VB 6 and VB.NET forms coexist? (SearchVB.com)
• Survey Results: VB.NET has advanced (SearchVB.com)
• Podcast: VB 6, VB.NET and a 'feet' of development (SearchVB.com)
• Article: VB.NET making progress, but VB 6 still No. 1 (SearchVB.com)
• Article: Gartner: VB.NET migration costs more than expected (SearchVB.com)
• Article: Getting started: Tips for VB6 to VB.NET 2.0 migration (SearchVB.com)
• Book Excerpts: Learning .NET (SearchVB.com)
• Tips: Top .NET tips of 2006 (SearchVB.com)
• Discussion: Why not use VB.NET? (TheServerSide.NET)

Visual Basic .NET Fundamentals

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• Guide: Overview of the .NET Framework (Microsoft)
• Guide: Improving string handling performance (Microsoft)
• Guide: .NET Framework security (Microsoft)
• Guide: Common Language Runtime (Microsoft)
• Guide: Introduction to the .NET Framework Class Library (Microsoft)
• Guide: Assemblies (Microsoft)
• Guide: Metadata and self-describing components (Microsoft)
• Guide: Common Microsoft .NET libraries for developers (Microsoft)

Migration Webcasts

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• Webcast: VB.NET Migration: First Steps (SearchVB.com)
• Webcast: Why would a VB 6.0'er consider VB.NET? (Channel9)
• Webcast: What does the lineage of VB mean to you? (Channel9)
• Webcast: Getting into Visual Basic.NET (Channel9)

VB.NET Language Specification

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• Reference: Introduction (Microsoft)
• Reference: Lexical Grammar (Microsoft)
• Reference: Preprocessing Directives (Microsoft)
• Reference: General Concepts (Microsoft)
• Reference: Attributes (Microsoft)
• Reference: Source Files and Namespaces (Microsoft)
• Reference: Types (Microsoft)
• Reference: Conversions (Microsoft)
• Reference: Type Members (Microsoft)
• Reference: Statements (Microsoft)
• Reference: Expressions (Microsoft)
• Reference: Visual Basic .NET Grammar Summary (Microsoft)

Newsgroups and Forums

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• Where peers share know-how and experience: ITKnowledge Exchange (SearchVB.com)
• Forums: MSDN Code Gallery (Microsoft)
• microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.vb
• microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.csharp
• microsoft.public.dotnet.general
• microsoft.public.dotnet.framework
• microsoft.public.dotnet.distributed_apps
• microsoft.public.dotnet.security

	ABOUT THE AUTHOR
	Brent Sheets is a former Senior Editor at TechTarget and a frequent contributor to SearchVB.com. He founded and managed the popular Visual Basic Web Directory website until it was acquired by TechTarget in 2000 and relaunched as SearchVB.com. Brent offers tips and tweaks about Apple technology at Mactoids.com.