Preparing Your Project for the Upgrade to Visual Basic .NET

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Preparing Your Project
for the Upgrade to
Visual Basic .NET
Now that you have decided to upgrade to Microsoft Visual Basic .NET, it’s time
to make the modifications necessary to smooth out the upgrade process. In
doing so, you need to focus on issues that could get in the way of a straightforward
upgrade. If you followed the guidelines in Chapter 3, you should already
have a good idea of the potential problem areas in your application. This chapter
will help you prepare for your upgrade project by identifying common coding
practices that can cause upgrade issues, above and beyond the issues
highlighted by the Upgrade Wizard’s upgrade report.
Keep in mind that rather than addressing how to upgrade, this chapter
focuses on identifying changes that you can make to existing applications to
help the upgrade go more smoothly. There are two parts to this topic. First we’ll
discuss the use of up-to-date language and platform features. Then we’ll look at
good coding practices and common traps that Visual Basic developers fall into.
Where necessary, examples are provided for clarity.
Why Change Anything?
The quality of your upgrade depends greatly on the quality of the…