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 …

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 …

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# …

GAP analyzes 1,105 inquiries from 120+ countries and publishes the full counts and methodology AUSTIN, Texas, August 27, 2026. GAPVelocity AI, the AI modernization business of Growth Acceleration Partners, today …

We looked at 1,105 modernization inquiries from a twelve-month period. Two-thirds of them named a language that shipped in 1998. The size of the world’s legacy code estate gets estimated …

How many of us wish we could start with a totally clean slate? In our heart of hearts we all wish we could rewrite from scratch all the bad code …

Every engineering team modernizing a legacy application has already run the experiment. Someone pastes a VB6 module, a PowerBuilder datawindow, or a .clw file from Clarion into a chat window …

Twenty-eight years ago Microsoft unleashed Visual Basic 6.0 on a world that was blissfully unaware of the concept of "technical debt." We dug up the original press release and added …

Microsoft Build is always a signal event. It's where Satya Nadella and team show you where the platform is going and by implication, what gets left behind. This year's keynote …

Microsoft Build 2026 opens this morning in San Francisco. Here's what the agent-first platform shift means if your core business logic still lives in Visual Basic 6. Satya Nadella takes …