by DeeDee Walsh, on Apr 18, 2026 2:25:06 PM
Why This Matters If You're Still Writing VB6 Variants If you've been maintaining a VB6 codebase for any length of time, you know the pattern well. A function that sometimes …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Apr 18, 2026 2:20:08 PM
Microsoft released .NET 11 Preview 3 this week, and while most coverage will focus on the developer-experience improvements, there are four changes worth flagging specifically for teams running or planning …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Apr 14, 2026 1:16:43 PM
A field guide to the last 30% and why it's where modernization projects live or die. You pasted your VB6 module into Claude. Or maybe ChatGPT. Maybe Copilot. And what …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Apr 4, 2026 4:28:07 PM
What We've Learned Migrating Billions of Lines of Visual Basic By GAPVelocity AI: the team behind the Visual Basic Upgrade Companion (VBUC), the Microsoft VB6 Upgrade Wizard, VB6 AI Migrator, …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Apr 4, 2026 4:09:48 PM
18 Years of Regret (and How to Finally Escape) It’s been exactly 18 years since Visual Basic 6 officially aged out of extended support. That means the End of Life …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Mar 31, 2026 10:53:52 AM
And what it means for enterprises sitting on millions of lines of legacy code. If you're modernizing legacy applications at enterprise scale (we're talking millions of lines of Access, PowerBuilder, …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Mar 29, 2026 4:09:51 PM
Microsoft Access has seven types of queries. Entity Framework Core has LINQ. That sentence makes the migration sound simple, and the simplicity is exactly where projects go wrong. Access queries …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Mar 24, 2026 8:00:12 PM
Why Microsoft’s Own Signals Are the Best Reason to Finally Modernize Your Access Applications There is a specific kind of anxiety reserved for the IT leader who knows their organization …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Mar 23, 2026 8:21:26 AM
You know the syntax. You've written the Dim rs As DAO.Recordset a thousand times. You can spot a missing Set statement in your sleep. But now someone's told you the …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Mar 18, 2026 8:53:15 PM
Why Your Next VDI Bill May Be the Best Reason to Finally Modernize PowerBuilder There is a specific kind of dread reserved for the person who has to justify a …
Read Story
