by DeeDee Walsh, on Oct 3, 2026, 6:41:39 AM
Your VB6 application runs on Windows 11. That answers the first compatibility question. Now try installing it on a clean machine, rebuilding it from source, and running the workflows your …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Sep 26, 2026, 7:25:42 PM
Microsoft's first .NET 11 release candidate is supported for production use as the platform moves toward its Nov. 10 launch. Most RC1 coverage is about C# 15, which RC1 makes …
Read Storyby Cheyenne Sokkappa, on Sep 24, 2026, 9:43:22 AM
Legacy desktop and client-server applications silently run many critical pieces of enterprise businesses. They barely stay alive and running, while the platform underneath them ages out of support, the developers …
Read Storyby 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 …
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