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visual studio .net general : Migrating from VS .NET 2002 to 2003

Shawn Melton
4/21/2004 10:06:07 AM

Les Smith
4/21/2004 3:42:49 PM

Shawn,
It depends on how much special code you have in VB6. Obviously, all code
must compile in VB6 on the computer that you use to migrate to .NET.

I have migrated several major apps, and the problems are by no means really
difficult. The migration tool does a good job and does not force you to
move from standard ADO to ado.net but I certainly recommend it since ADO.NET
is much more powerful for future development.

Have some good resource books available as well as several .NET sites.
Learn to use Google search for help, there are thousands of answers on the
web.

HTH
Les Smith
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my developers to the newest development tools?

Peter van der Goes
4/22/2004 7:39:38 AM

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my developers to the newest development tools?

If you are asking what your subject line indicates, going from VS.NET 2002
to VS.NET 2003, you should have only rare, minor problems. 2003 includes an
update wizard for your existing 2002 solutions that should work
automatically with 99+% of your existing solutions. Personally, I have yet
to encounter a solution where manual intervention was required. YMMV.
2003 uses the .NET Framework v1.1, where 2002 uses v1.0. 2003 includes J#,
etc.
Here are some articles that address differences. I'm sure you'll find many
more.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/productinfo/topten/upgrade02.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/productinfo/overview/whatsnew.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/productinfo/faq/default.aspx

Hope this helps.

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Peter [MVP Visual Developer]
Jack of all trades, master of none.

Carlos J. Quintero [MVP]
4/22/2004 2:44:08 PM

Les,

The subject of the post indicates that he is not moving from VB6 but from
VS.NET 2002 to VS.NET 2003, so no migration tool is needed ;-)

Shawn,

It should be quite direct, no problems. Both VS.NET IDEs and NET Frameworks
can coexist. The only caveat is that the project files are in different
format, so once you save a project file with version 2003 you can not open
it with 2002 (there are tools on the internet to move back if needed, or you
can wisely make backups). Pure code files remain unchanged but .resx files
also change.

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Carlos J. Quintero (Visual Developer - .NET MVP)

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