by Cheyenne Sokkappa, on Sep 16, 2026, 8:00:01 AM
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Most VB6 applications still in production have outlasted the people who wrote them and the documentation that once explained them. The business rules that matter are no longer written down …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Sep 12, 2026, 4:13:56 PM
Why That “Boring” .NET Servicing Drop Matters Most engineers treat monthly runtime servicing posts like terms-of-service agreements: scroll, acknowledge the existence of life and immediately close the tab. Usually, that’s …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Sep 9, 2026, 5:54:27 PM
The real headline of .NET 11 is that the runtime, language, and SDK teams have quietly shipped some of the most pragmatic, blue-collar plumbing fixes in years. Updated Sept 14, …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Sep 5, 2026, 8:06:40 PM
Visual Basic 6 survived Y2K, the dot-com crash, several generations of Windows, the cloud migration wave, and the end of Windows 10 support. Plenty of VB6 applications still run important …
Read Storyby Oscar Poveda, on Sep 1, 2026, 6:38:39 PM
How to Catch the Code That Goes Missing After a Modernization How to verify whether a code migration is complete A successful build proves that the modernized code compiles. It …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Aug 29, 2026, 7:59:58 PM
Here's a line of VB6 that runs in production somewhere in your building right now: vb If Not (rs!Status = "ACTIVE") Then Call LogInactive(rs!AccountID) End If And here's the C# …
Read Storyby Oscar Poveda, on Aug 27, 2026, 10:28:48 AM
The first thing a client does when a modernization finishes is count the lines of code (LOC). Three thousand lines of PowerBuilder went in. Twenty-five thousand lines of React and …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Aug 27, 2026, 9:34:23 AM
GAP analyzes 1,105 inquiries from 120+ countries and publishes the full counts and methodology AUSTIN, Texas, August 27, 2026. GAPVelocity AI, the AI modernization business of Growth Acceleration Partners, today …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Aug 25, 2026, 7:07:12 PM
We looked at 1,105 modernization inquiries from a twelve-month period. Two-thirds of them named a language that shipped in 1998. The size of the world’s legacy code estate gets estimated …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Aug 22, 2026, 6:58:02 PM
How many of us wish we could start with a totally clean slate? In our heart of hearts we all wish we could rewrite from scratch all the bad code …
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