by 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, …
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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 Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Mar 16, 2026, 6:25:09 PM
Microsoft shipped .NET 11 Preview 2 on March 10, 2026, exactly one month after Preview 1. While Preview 1 gave us the architectural bones like Zstandard compression and CoreCLR on …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Mar 15, 2026, 6:26:28 PM
You’ve probably already tried it. You opened ChatGPT or Claude, pasted a chunk of VBA that’s been running since the Clinton administration, and asked it to "make this a C# …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Mar 11, 2026, 1:06:41 PM
Why wrapping legacy DataWindows in REST endpoints isn’t modernization. It’s embalming. PowerBuilder 2025 shipped with a feature that’s going to get a lot of attention: automatic REST API generation from …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Mar 8, 2026, 2:40:42 PM
A Practical Framework for Choosing Your Target Platform Microsoft released .NET 10 in November 2025, and .NET 11 Preview 1 followed in February 2026. If you’re making platform decisions right …
Read Storyby DeeDee Walsh, on Mar 6, 2026, 4:33:53 PM
What Preview 1 Means for Legacy Modernization Teams Microsoft shipped .NET 11 Preview 1 on February 10, 2026, kicking off the development cycle for what will be a Standard Term …
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