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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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# …

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 …

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 …

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 …