Updated: Feb 12, 2007 — This learning guide provides experienced Visual Basic 6 developers with a one-stop source for .NET migration information. If you haven't made the move to .NET yet,
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| Migration Quickstart | Table of Contents |
- Expert Knowledgebase: Programming and .NET Development with John Robbins (TechTarget.com)
- Article: Preparing your Visual Basic 6.0 applications for the upgrade to Visual Basic .NET (Microsoft)
- Article: Designing an application migration strategy for Visual Basic 6.0 to Visual Basic .NET (Microsoft)
- Overview: Changes from VB6 to VB.NET (4guysfromrolla.com)
- Guide: Visual Basic language changes (Microsoft)
- Overview: What's new in Visual Basic (Microsoft)
- Guide: Essential components of Visual Basic .NET (Microsoft)
- Guide: OOP in Visual Basic .NET (Microsoft)
- Guide: Multithreading in Visual Basic .NET (Microsoft)
- Guide: Exception Handling (Microsoft)
| Visual Basic .NET Articles | Table of Contents |
- Learning Guide: Choosing VB.NET or C# (SearchVB.com)
- Learning Guide: Object-Oriented Programming in VB.NET (SearchVB.com)
- Quiz: What do you know about VB 6 migration? (SearchVB.com)
- Article: Can VB 6 and VB.NET forms coexist? (SearchVB.com)
- Survey Results: VB.NET has advanced (SearchVB.com)
- Podcast: VB 6, VB.NET and a 'feet' of development (SearchVB.com)
- Article: VB.NET making progress, but VB 6 still No. 1 (SearchVB.com)
- Article: Gartner: VB.NET migration costs more than expected (SearchVB.com)
- Article: Getting started: Tips for VB6 to VB.NET 2.0 migration (SearchVB.com)
- Book Excerpts: Learning .NET (SearchVB.com)
- Tips: Top .NET tips of 2006 (SearchVB.com)
- Discussion: Why not use VB.NET? (TheServerSide.NET)
| Visual Basic .NET Fundamentals | Table of Contents |
- Guide: Overview of the .NET Framework (Microsoft)
- Guide: Improving string handling performance (Microsoft)
- Guide: .NET Framework security (Microsoft)
- Guide: Common Language Runtime (Microsoft)
- Guide: Introduction to the .NET Framework Class Library (Microsoft)
- Guide: Assemblies (Microsoft)
- Guide: Metadata and self-describing components (Microsoft)
- Guide: Common Microsoft .NET libraries for developers (Microsoft)
| Migration Webcasts | Table of Contents |
- Webcast: VB.NET Migration: First Steps (SearchVB.com)
- Webcast: Why would a VB 6.0'er consider VB.NET? (Channel9)
- Webcast: What does the lineage of VB mean to you? (Channel9)
- Webcast: Getting into Visual Basic.NET (Channel9)
| VB.NET Language Specification | Table of Contents |
- Reference: Introduction (Microsoft)
- Reference: Lexical Grammar (Microsoft)
- Reference: Preprocessing Directives (Microsoft)
- Reference: General Concepts (Microsoft)
- Reference: Attributes (Microsoft)
- Reference: Source Files and Namespaces (Microsoft)
- Reference: Types (Microsoft)
- Reference: Conversions (Microsoft)
- Reference: Type Members (Microsoft)
- Reference: Statements (Microsoft)
- Reference: Expressions (Microsoft)
- Reference: Visual Basic .NET Grammar Summary (Microsoft)
| Newsgroups and Forums | Table of Contents |
- Where peers share know-how and experience: ITKnowledge Exchange (SearchVB.com)
- Forums: MSDN Code Gallery (Microsoft)
- microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.vb
- microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.csharp
- microsoft.public.dotnet.general
- microsoft.public.dotnet.framework
- microsoft.public.dotnet.distributed_apps
- microsoft.public.dotnet.security
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This was first published in September 2005