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gmStudio Release News: Thursday, July 27, 2017

Jul 26, 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 30.52, 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 Energy Trading System composed of 177 VBPs referencing 2,724 code files (1.6M LOC) and 90 third party-COM components)
• Adds support for different code file encoding schemes <Select CharSet=“ASCII|UTF8|Shift_JIS”/>; default is ASCII
• Improves VB.NET support for upgrading for each loop over control array elements
• Improves VB.NET support for parameters declared to take Generic collection of control (i.e. VB6 Control Array)
• Improves migration of Startup Form to use a Starup class with a Main function that runs and instance of the form
• Improves custom migration certain cases of COM Property Get
• Improves build order report to allow for references to .RLL files

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 Search feature by adding support for reading search terms from a file using /filepath
• Improves Source References report to use library description from IDL file if it is not available from the registry
• Improves .NET Build Log report to more accurately report source lines
• Improves Metrics Summary Report to report Reference Type and Name in COM References section

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, June 6, 2017

Jun 6, 2017

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New gmStudio Case Studies and Testimonials

A recent customer allowed us to publish a brief description of their VB6/COM upgrade project and their testimonial of success with gmStudio. Learn how a small team successfully completed a very large, ambitious VB6/COM upgrade effort with the help of gmStudio. Read the article

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 30.49, includes several enhancements:

General Improvements

• Improves the general ability to produce build-complete .NET code from very large, very complex VB6 systems (most recently including enhancements needed to upgrade a Chiropractic Patient Management application composed of 60 inter-related VBPs referencing 1,079 unique files containing over 780K unique LOC and 84 third party COM components)
• Improves handling member name clashes in COM APIs
• Improves inferring the rank of variant arrays
• Improves handling mismatch between enum parameter type and enum arguments
• Improves using weakly-typed values in a context expecting a Color value
• Improves handling classes named “Main” that conflict with the reserved method name “Main”
• Improves handling the “value” parameter of property setters
• Improves initialization of 2D arrays
• Improves conversions applied for mixed-type assignments
• Corrects metalanguage declaration of MidB to return String
• Improves default C# coding style to use more of lightweight object-oriented patterns (previously required Subsytem=loc)

ASP Improvements

• Improves statement boundary detection in complex cases of server code integrated with markup
• Improves upgrading VBScript classes in ASP codes to code classes
• Improves upgrading #include statements in render functions
• Improves use of extension methods in upgraded ASP code
• Improves upgrading cross-linked VBScript classes. In ASP, cross-linking occurs when code in #include files or VBScript classes references symbols from other #includes, pages, or classes.

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:

• Adds support for opening Side-by-Side viewer from member search results
• Adds support for opening Side-by-Side viewer from GUI designer search results
• Adds support for opening Side-by-Side viewer for code classes generated from VBScript classes
• Improves Reset job status behavior to also clear reference status and delete IDF cache files

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: Wednesday, May 3, 2017

May 2, 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 30.46, includes several enhancements:

• Improves the general ability to produce build-complete .NET code from very large, very complex VB6 systems (most recently including enhancements needed to upgrade a Comprehensive Tax Preparation of 19 inter-related VBPs referencing 993 unique files containing over 1.4M unique LOC and 42 third party COM components)
• Adds support for UserDocument
• Improves handling name clashes with other application identifiers or .NET reserved words
• Improves preserving comments in enums, user-defined types, and select-case statements
• Adds logic to report a warning when a Refactor/FixType is not found
• Improves inferring and propagating the rank of array parameters and variables
• Increases the number of possible branches in a Select/Case to 1024
• Improves handling COM descriptions containing same-named interfaces
• Removes automatic conversion of a Function to a Subroutine when the Function does not set any return value
• Improves handling Implements and interfaces
• Improves refactoring GoSub into separate functions
• Improves handling the CVar function
• Improves handling recursive functions
• Improves reporting translation diagnostics when TraceChanges=on
• Improves readability of complex late calls
• Improves maintaining the consistency of inferred types for a property let/get
• Improves handling of variant variables/parameters used both as array and scalar
• Improves logic to insert temporary variables used within Do-While loops
• Improves project with non-standard file naming conventions

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:

• Adds Support for UserDocuments and Designers on Source Structure Report
• Improves Support for custom ActiveX Designers
• Corrects updating Reference Status in the project tracking reports
• Improves use of user-preferred editor rather than shell-open
• Adds support opening containing file from a full-file search at a specific line
• Simplifies default editor conventions
• Adds the ability to open Side-by-Side viewer from Build Log listing

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, March 14, 2017

Mar 28, 2017

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New gmStudio Case Studies and Testimonials

A handful of 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. Read the case studies

Adding WPF Support for VB.NET

The gmStudio distribution includes a sample demonstrating an upgrade of VB6 forms to WPF. This sample was originally implemented for C# only. In this release, we added a WPF sample for VB.NET and published a blog article to describe how we did it.

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 30.44, includes several enhancements:

• Improves the general, right out-of-the-box, ability to produce build-complete .NET code from very large, very complex VB6 systems (most recently including enhancements needed to upgrade a Comprehensive Tax Preparation of 19 inter-related VBPs referencing 993 unique files containing over 1.4M unique LOC and 42 third party COM components)
• Improves rewriting complex GoSub blocks as separate functions
• Improves handling undeclared variables
• Improves rewriting complex conditional expressions that mix booleans and enums
• Improves relocating local Const variables when needed to initialize local Static arrays
• Improves rewriting Select/Case statements
• Improves rewriting designer code enum properties initialized with an undefined numeric values
• Improves rewriting IIf with incompatible true/false result types
• Improves determining if a control or its default property is needed when referenced from outside the host form
• Improves rewriting large numeric literal expressions to prevent compile-time overflow
• Improves identifying collection properties and migrating complex references to collection element
• Improves rewriting binary operations involving decimal and DateTime quantities
• Improves rewriting logic for control arrays as logic using SortedList
• Improves handling files that had internal naming collision
• Improves rewriting the Unload control statement
• Improves rewriting references to the Index property of control arrays.
• Improves propagating custom interface events to Implementing classes
• Improves rewriting very large numeric consts that were specified as string literals
• Improves inferring and propagating the rank and marshalling of array parameters
• Improves placement of temporary variables created in nested code blocks
• Improves type inference for collections of collections
• Improves rewriting Friend interface members as public
• Improves rewriting parameterized properties

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:

• Adds support for Side-by-Side Code Viewer with ASP upgrade projects
• Adds support for creating new gmStudio projects from the command line interface
• Improves default results folder naming conventions to use a simpler, more natural form
• Improves Close Project behavior
• Improves error handling and reporting for Meta-Language and Translation processes
• Adds Double-Click to Edit User-Files on the Configuration form
• Improves Edit Project Name behavior on the Configuration form
• Improves the Search Reporting for XML files in the User and System folder by reporting fully qualified location of matches.
• Improves default Search List/Reporting layout when their orientation changes
• Improves Visual Studio Solution Generator to set stable project GUIDs based on upgrade project task names
• Corrects Task order displayed on the Upgrade Wizard to reflect build order and processing order
• Corrects new projects to suppress upgrading Collections/Dictionaries to strongly-typed Generic collections

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 latest distribution of sample rules files includes several improvements:

• Adds scripts showing how VB6 forms may be upgraded to WPF/XAML for VB.NET. Formerly this was only available for C#

Sample Upgrade Solutions Update

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

• Adds a sample demonstrating VB6 forms to WPF/XAML for VB.NET. Formerly this was only available for C#

Product Release: Wednesday, February 1, 2017

Feb 5, 2017

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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 so that it is more robust and flexible and it produces cleaner, more correct results. This distribution, Version 30.43, includes several enhancements:

• Improves the general ability to produce build-complete .NET code from very large, very complex VB6 systems (most recently including enhancements needed to upgrade a Comprehensive Accounting System of 38 inter-related VBPs re ferencing 1,149 unique files containing over 1.8M unique LOC).
• Improves ByRef to ByVal optimization rules
• Improves precision of division involving fixed-point quantities.
• Improves handling of international Character sets in source code and upgrade configuration files
• Improves handling With blocksusing instance of a user-defined type (C#)
• Improves handling of IsNull/Null operations with default properties
• Improves handling of power-of-ten numeric constants to use the ‘E’ notation (e.g., 1.0E3)
• Improves handling of optional parameters that use private symbols as default values by using overloading

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 also making it easier to use. This distribution includes several enhancements:

• Adds a FileName attribute in the ScriptRule commands
• Adds support for copying selected text to the clipboard from the Side-by-Side code review form
• Adds support for authoring ’%’ character from Search Reporting template (useful for generating refactoring commands from search results)
• Improves copying task list data using CTRL-C (names) and Shift-CTRL-C (details)
• Adds option to add a User Command Script to each task when adding tasks to a gmStudio project file
• Improves Search Reporting options: unique, template, detail, none
• Improves ProgID Report by removing deprecated CLSID field
• Corrects issue with FileExists test when file path is null
• Corrects issue with starting application with the /folder command line switch

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 latest distribution of sample rules files includes several improvements:

• Standardizes sample COM replacement rulesso that the internal library id is same as default COM library id. This simplifies activating COM replacement rules files in your upgrade solution
• Simplifies MigrationSupport namespace conventions to streamline the supporting code if needed
• Updates standard script templates by moving configuration folder specifications to top of script
• Updates comments in sample standard script templates standard script templates file

Sample Upgrade Solutions

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

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