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gmStudio Release News: Wednesday, April 3, 2018

Apr 9, 2018

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Announcing gmslAPI: a .NET API for Upgrade Development

Great Migrations is pleased to announce a major break through in software re-engineering: a .NET API for automating the gmBasic upgrade engine and accessing the semantic models produced by our linguistic compilation technology.

Our goal for this API is to provide the most powerful development platform for building advanced upgrade solutions. The API integrates the features of the Great Migrations Programming Language (gmPL) with Great Migrations Scripting Language (gmSL). The XML-based gmPL has been used for upgrade scripts as well as meta-language and COM interface description files. The C-like gmSL API has been used extensively for dynamic code templates, deep code analysis, and advanced transformations. gmPL and gmSL provide access to an extensive collection of gmBasic commands, events, and operations, but they lack key features of modern development platforms such as interactive debugging and intellisense. The new .NET-based gmslAPI addresses these limitations and provides greater access to the full power of the gmBasic translation engine. Of course, developers building upgrade solutions using gmslAPI can also use other .NET language and framework features allowing more sophisticated upgrade solutions integrating a wider array of information.

The API includes special purposes classes to help you integrate API-based EXE upgrade tasks with gmStudio and customize their behavior. EXE upgrades tasks can be used in gmStudio using procedures very similar to those for gmPL script tasks. The main difference is the EXE tasks are implemented in C# (or VB.NET) using Visual Studio while gmPL script tasks are implemented in XML using your favorite code editor. We have already developed a C# version of the WPF transformation logic using this API and also used it with C# to implement several very large multi-feature upgrade solutions. And early preview of API documentation is here and additional documentation and samples will be published soon. Please Contact us directly if you are interested in discussing how this technology can help you.

gmBasic: Upgrade Engine

gmBasic is a powerful code processor that reads, interprets, and rewrites VB6/ASP/COM systems as .NET (C# or VB.NET). We are always improving gmBasic to make it more robust and flexible and so that it produces cleaner, more correct results. This distribution, Version 30.68, includes several enhancements:

• Adds a .NET API for accessing the gmBasic operations and semantic information models
• Improves handling of nested collections and dictionaries
• Improves separation of declarations and executable code into codebehind and markup for ASP using alternate statement separator
• Improves upgrading properties with optional arguments to a method

gmStudio: Upgrade Solution Development Environment

Powered by gmBasic, gmStudio is a development environment for creating high-performance, custom VB6/ASP/COM to .NET upgrade solutions. We are always adding functionality to gmStudio and making it easier to use. This distribution includes several enhancements:

• Improves ScriptRules file handling by allowing ScriptRule elements to be conditional.
• Adds support for gmslAPI and upgrade tasks using a custom EXE rather than gmBasic
• Improves Filter to Selection using both the Source Name and Task Tag
• Improves Search Reports allow for XML files that are not in an expected GM meta-data format.
• Improves Support for handling text files with different EOL conventions
• Improves Library Description value reported in the Source References Report
• Adds support for %ProjectFolder% parameter in Visual Studio Solution Generator project List
• Improves IDF path reported in the Source Reference Report for ASP include references
• Improves default ASP Site Upgrade Projects generated by Project Wizard; setting job type to MULTI, not CUSTOM

Sample Upgrade Rules

gmStudio ships with a collection of sample upgrade rules that can be used to add custom features to your upgrade solution. These XML documents and gmSL scripts are distributed as source that you may modify to fit your unique requirements. The sample rules were updated to reflect the latest product improvements and conventions.

• Improves scrrun.dll.xml sample
• Improves default ScriptRules.xml file and documentation

Sample Upgrade Solutions

Great Migrations publishes a number of sample VB6/ASP upgrade solutions to illustrate the capabilities of gmStudio. The sample upgrade solutions were updated to reflect the latest product improvements and conventions.

gmStudio Release News: Thursday, December 14, 2017

Dec 18, 2017

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Special Announcement: new FORTRAN-to-C# tool

gmFortran, our world-class FORTRAN-to-C Translator, is being enhanced to support FORTRAN-to-C#. Our development efforts have already produced a tool that can translate the GSA FORTRAN Compiler Validation Suite to functionally equivalent C#. Please contact us if you are interested in participating in the beta-test.

gmBasic: Upgrade Engine Update

gmBasic is a powerful code processor that reads, interprets, and rewrites VB6/ASP/COM systems as .NET (C# or VB.NET). We are always improving gmBasic to make it more robust and flexible and so that it produces cleaner, more correct results. This distribution, Version 30.60, includes several enhancements:

• Improves translating ASP render functions containing markup with in-line if-then blocks
• Removes reference to VisualBasic.PowerPacks assembly when using a stub framework strategy
• Adds support for DoEvents called as a function returning integer
• Corrects issue with analysing references to module constants
• Corrects several patterns relating to UserControl methods
• Allows referencing MigrationSupport assembly when using local stub framework strategy

gmStudio: Upgrade Solution Development Environment Update

Powered by gmBasic, gmStudio is a development environment for creating high-performance, custom VB6/ASP/COM to .NET upgrade solutions. We are always adding functionality to gmStudio and making it easier to use. This distribution includes several enhancements:

• Improves ASP Translation scripts generated by the New Project Wizard
• Accelerates default ASP project setup by limiting the source scan to .asp, .asa, and .inc files.
• Adds sorting to source file list in the New Project Wizard
• Corrects screen layout problems when running Windows with text size greater then 100%
• Improves Search Template Reporting by using ’^’ rather than ” as escape character
• Adds Find-Count Reporting for XML file search results
• Improves Search-Replacement facility by allowing replacing multi-line regex patterns
• Improves Project Summary Report to use case-insensitive tabulation for COM reference summary
• Improves performance of Search Template Reporting
• Adds user-defined events to Source Members Report
• Corrects reporting the parent of enum entries in the IDF Search Report
• Adds whole-word, case-insenstive, and regex options when searching code listings in the Side-by-Side Form
• Adds support for opening Definitions Report at specific record from Search Results list

Sample Upgrade Rules Update

gmStudio ships with a collection of sample upgrade rules that can be used to add custom features to your upgrade solution. These XML documents and gmSL scripts are distributed as source that you may modify to fit your unique requirements. The sample rules were updated to reflect the latest product improvements and conventions.

• Improves web site deployments and functional testing logic in the default User Command Script template
• Improves the GlobalIncludes Script template
• Improves the Search Reporting Script template
• Improves usability of MSWord Interop upgrade rules file
• Improves search pattern samples in the default Code Scan Terms file

Sample Upgrade Solutions Update

Great Migrations publishes a number of sample VB6/ASP upgrade solutions to illustrate the capabilities of gmStudio. The sample upgrade solutions were updated to reflect the latest product improvements and conventions.

gmStudio Release News: Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Nov 28, 2017

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gmBasic: Upgrade Engine Update

gmBasic is a powerful code processor that reads, interprets, and rewrites VB6/ASP/COM systems as .NET (C# or VB.NET). We are always improving gmBasic so that it is more robust and flexible and it produces cleaner, more correct results. This distribution, Version 30.55, includes several enhancements:

• Improves the general ability to produce accurate build-complete .NET (C# and VB.NET) systems from VB6 systems (most recently including enhancements needed to upgrade a large shipping logistics application with 1 VBP referencing 283 code files containing 880K LOC and 39 third party-COM components)
• Adds Refactor/OverGeneric statement to create generic overloads for byref parameters that must take multiple types of arguments
• Adds new Replace attributes for matching patterns: MatchBlock=‘on’ and MatchTillLast=‘on’
• Improves generated Forms designer code
• Adds parameter@types attribute to the InterfaceDefine feature to direct interfaces generated from specified types
• Improves upgrading difficult cases of On Error Goto and On Error Resume
• Improves GoSub refactoring to allow more GoSubs within a method
• Improves handling of reference to COM Constants
• Improves handling of calls to the Array function with no arguments
• Improves translations of Third-Party Controls on Forms and UserControls
• Improves handling of naming conflicts between undeclared application symbols and VB6/COM global symbols
• Improves handling of naming conflicts between control names and VB6 keywords
• Adds DataStore API methods to the GM Scripting Language (gmSL)

gmStudio: Upgrade Solution Development Environment Update

Powered by gmBasic, gmStudio is a development environment for creating high-performance, custom VB6/ASP/COM to .NET upgrade solutions. We are always adding functionality to gmStudio and also making it easier to use. This distribution includes several enhancements:

• Improves the Visual Studio integration by allowing you to launch with a new VS Solution or with a .NET project file
• Improves the Visual Studio integration by opening the existing session if already running
• Improves the VB6 IDE integration by opening the existing session if already running
• Improves Upgrade Wizard by allowing user to skip metrics reporting operations
• Improves launching Side-By-Side Viewer for build errors in MDIForms
• Corrects project creation using Windows Shell Integration

Sample Upgrade Rules Update

gmStudio ships with a collection of sample upgrade rules that can be used to add custom features to your upgrade solution. These XML documents and gmSL scripts are distributed as source that you may modify to fit your unique requirements. The sample rules were updated to reflect the latest product improvements and conventions.

Sample Upgrade Solutions Update

Great Migrations publishes a number of sample VB6/ASP upgrade solutions to illustrate the capabilities of gmStudio. The sample upgrade solutions were updated to reflect the latest product improvements and conventions.

gmStudio Release News: Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Oct 23, 2017

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gmBasic: Upgrade Engine Update

gmBasic is a powerful code processor that reads, interprets, and rewrites VB6/ASP/COM systems as .NET (C# or VB.NET). We are always improving gmBasic to make it more robust and flexible and so that it produces cleaner, more correct results. This distribution, Version 30.57, includes several enhancements:

• Improves handling name clashes between undeclared symbols and global class names
• Improves handling name clashes between global constants and global class names
• Improves processing string constants that contain the conditional compilation character, ’#’
• Improves C# code review by authoring TODOs for partially-upgraded GoTo Error and Resume statements

gmStudio: Upgrade Solution Development Environment Update

Powered by gmBasic, gmStudio is a development environment for creating high-performance, custom VB6/ASP/COM to .NET upgrade solutions. We are always adding functionality to gmStudio and making it easier to use. This distribution includes several enhancements:

• Adds Multi-Threaded Search (applies to .NET Code, Configuration, Model and Custom files)
• Modifies Default TypeLib Search Paths to check both \Windows\SysWOW64 and \Windows\System32
• Improves Reporting .NET Code Analysis records in .NET Build Report
• Adds Reload File Context Menu for SearchTerms/ReportTemplate
• Improves the documentation for using Template-based Reports for Search results
• Improves the New Project Wizard setup for ASP sites
• Improves the New Project Wizard Completion Reporting
• Improves the New Project Wizard Error Handling
• Improves the New Project Wizard Session Log Report
• Includes other minor bug fixes and improvements

Sample Upgrade Rules Update

gmStudio ships with a collection of sample upgrade rules that can be used to add custom features to your upgrade solution. These XML documents and gmSL scripts are distributed as source that you may modify to fit your unique requirements. The sample rules were updated to reflect the latest product improvements and conventions.

Sample Upgrade Solutions Update

Great Migrations publishes a number of sample VB6/ASP upgrade solutions to illustrate the capabilities of gmStudio. The sample upgrade solutions were updated to reflect the latest product improvements and conventions.

New gmStudio Testimonials

Sep 15, 2017

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A number of our recent customers allowed us to publish brief descriptions of their VB6/COM upgrade projects and their testimonials of success with gmStudio. Learn how small teams successfully completed large, ambitious VB6/COM upgrade efforts with the help of gmStudio.

• Southern Company Services — Operations and Maintenance Tracking System (ASP)
• Greycon — X-Trim Production Optimization System
• Alexander Forbes — Insurance Administration System
• Polygon — PolyPM ERP for Sewn and Textile Industries
• HerbertABS — CargoMAX

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