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 …
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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 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 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 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 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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