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Visual Basic Migration

What is a VB migration?

Essentially, the goal of a VB migration project is to leverage and reuse the processes, logic, labor and financial investment of an existing VB application by migrating and converting these elements and their functionality to a newer, more modern, true object oriented language and platform. Since Microsoft has officially ended their support of VB there is a growing need in the market for automated solutions to migrate/convert VB6 applications to more modern and supported language environments.


  • VB Components
  • Why?
  • Options

Visual Basic Components:

  • Visual Basic IDE [Integrated Development Environment]
  • Visual Basic Runtime -- the base libraries and execution engine used to run VB 6.0 applications
  • Visual Basic Runtime Extended Files – select ActiveX control OCX files, libraries, and tools shipping with the IDE media and as an online release




Why should we move off of Visual Basic?

  • Microsoft no longer supports Visual Basic.
  • Developers will be going to newer technology positions.
  • Full Object-Orientation with newer languages.
  • Reduced costs of application deployment.
  • Ability to move to other platforms and hardware.
  • Advantages of web enabling.

What are the options when moving off of VB?


These are the most popular migration/conversion options:

  • Visual Basic to VB.NET or C#.
  • Visual Basic to ASP.NET.
  • Visual Basic to J2EE.
  • Web enable Visual Basic.
  • Ability to move to other platforms and hardware.
  • Convert Visual Basic to a Rich Internet Application ( Ajax, Flex, Silverlight, JSF).