Differences between the VB6 TreeNode and .NET System.Windows.Forms.TreeNode

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In working on the conversion of a VB6 Forms application to VB.NET (as mentioned in my last post), I have discovered many instances where Microsoft decided to keep the name (and sometimes even the associated syntax) of an element, while changing the functionality of the methods related to that element.One such example is that of … Read more

Converting a VB6 Application to VB.NET

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Recently I was tasked with stabilizing an old Windows Forms app written in Visual Basic 6.  VB6 was a great language for simple applications in its heyday, but now that the .NET Framework is 10 years old and new PCs all have 64-bit CPUs, it’s high time for an upgrade. Fortunately, all versions of Visual … Read more