Most Visual Basic 6 applications involve data in some way or another, and most Visual Basic 6 developers are comfortable working with ADO in order to solve their data-handling tasks. It's likely that if you're currently an expert Visual Basic 6 developer, you're interested in moving your skills to the world of .NET, using Visual Basic 2005 as your development language. This skill transfer isn't nearly as simple as you might like, and, to be honest, you've got real work to do.
Need to migrate to .NET? The aim of this series of three articles is to make this transition a little less stressful. By walking you through the conversion and modifications involved in moving a simple Visual Basic 6 data-oriented application into Visual Basic 2005, you'll get started on the tasks of moving your own applications, and your skills, to Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Basic 2005.
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