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gmStudio Release News: Friday, 27-September-2019

Sep 26, 2019

gmBasic: Upgrade Engine

gmBasic is a code transformation tool that reads, interprets, and rewrites VB6/ASP/COM systems to one of the .NET languages (C# or VB.NET). Based on feedback from our clients and migration projects in the field, we are continuously improving gmBasic so as to help users more easily produce cleaner and more correct results. This distribution, Version 30.95, includes several enhancements:

• Adds support for dimensioned types as collection values in the GenericCollections Migration extension
• Adds support for migrating a boolean to an enum
• Adds support for extending an API by adding an enumeration at the library level
• Adds support for using Refactor/Remove with Enums and Consts symbols
• Improves default interface description files to migrate COM short to .NET integer
• Improves support for changing the number of arguments when migrating a method
• Corrects issue with handling arguments containing ’#’ character
• Improves handling whitespace and complex markup when upgrading ASP
• Improves handling name collisions between the Form and a method within the same Form
• Improves %nP Pattern Token replacement conventions
• Improves handling to ControlArray.Ubound operations
• Improves handling conditional expressions comparing Date and Int(Date)
• Improves handling division expressions using Twips quantities

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 continuously adding functionality to gmStudio and making it easier to use. This distribution includes several enhancements:

• Adds support for using a gmProj-specific Project List file when generating a Visual Studio Solution file
• Adds support for specifying and using folders to organize projects when generating a Visual Studio Solution file
• Adds Generate Solution File option to Tools Menu
• Adds Edit Solution File Project List File option to Tools Menu
• Adds support for passing Project Type (VB6 or ASP) into script templates
• Adds support for PostAuthor elements in ScriptRules file
• Improves Member Location reported in Source Scan for matches in the General code block
• Improves displaying Functional Test Log in Information Panel
• Improves reporting REPLACEFILE messages in Translation Log Report
• Improves section headers in the All Logs Report
• Improves searching Migration Set Report results
• Improves adding multiple VBPs from a VBG file or a simple text file listing of VBP paths
• Improves Search Results reporting to allow reporting regular expression group matching anywhere in the report record using %rec%[n] place holder in Search Report Template
• Improves Search list results handling of “not found” case
• Improves ScriptRules logging in the actual translation script
• Improves the GUI Scan report with support for Designer file data
• Improves the Side-by-Side Viewer with support for Designer file data
• Improves References Report to include coclass/class used as parameter
• Improves reporting Properties on References Report and Definitions Report

gmslAPI: a .NET API for Developing Advanced Upgrade Solutions

Powered by gmBasic, gmslAPI is a .NET API for automating the gmBasic upgrade engine and accessing the semantic models produced by our unique linguistic compilation technology. gmslAPI also includes classes to facilitate the management of complex upgrade rules and integration with the gmStudio IDE. This API was updated to reflect the latest product improvements and conventions.

• Improves References report to include coclass/class used as parameter
• Improves reporting properties on References Report and Definitions Report

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. See also additions and changes in gmStudio Extensions Repository.

• Improves Windows Common Controls to WinForms Rules
• Implements ListControls.gmsl without using DataStore classes
• Improves Functional Test batch processing sample
• Improves Instructions in the Search Report Template sample
• Adds more controls to StubControlBaseClass.xml

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.

• Adds ListView Columns Sorting example to FileExplorer sample
• Adds logic to run Analytics Definitions Reports to sample batch script

gmStudio Release News: Tuesday, 30-July-2019

Jul 29, 2019

gmBasic: Upgrade Engine

gmBasic is a code transformation tool that rewrites VB6/ASP/COM systems to one of the .NET languages (C# or VB.NET). Based on feedback from our clients and migration projects in the field, we are continuously improving gmBasic so as to help users more easily produce cleaner and more correct results. This distribution, Version 30.92, includes several enhancements:

• Corrects problems with translating VBScript comments within ASP String Literals
• Improves preservation of horizontal and vertical whitespace in ASP translations
• Improves support for more operation while under trial license
• Adds use of libtype=Internal in a migration rules file to suppress stub assembly references
• Improves support for DataField and DataSource properties while generating a global stub framework
• Improves recognition of various VB6 Intrinsic functions
• Improves recognition of an custom instance of the ErrorObject
• Simplify metalanguage information for VB6 File System ListBox controls

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 continuously adding functionality to gmStudio and making it easier to use. This distribution includes several enhancements:

• Adds Help/Extensions to display gmStudio Extensions Repository https://greatmigrations.atlassian.net/wiki/display/GMG/gmStudio+Extensions
• Improves detecting and using of different versions of VS2017 for .NET build operations
• Improves Definitions Report to indicate which subprograms are event Handlers
• Improves ScriptRules command to allow additional script variables in FileName attribute value
• Improves handling nested conditions in ScriptRules elements
• Improves ScriptRules logging and error handling
• Improves hot-key handling for Task Reset operation
• Improves Find dialogue behavior in the Side-by-Side Form
• Improves Translation Log Reporting
• Improves Member named in Source Scan Report for matches found in a file’s General section
• Improves File Peek Report when starting from first record of a file

gmslAPI: a .NET API for Developing Advanced Upgrade Solutions

Powered by gmBasic, gmslAPI is a .NET API for automating the gmBasic upgrade engine and accessing the semantic models produced by our unique linguistic compilation technology. gmslAPI also includes classes to facilitate the management of complex upgrade rules and integration with the gmStudio IDE. This API was updated to reflect the latest product improvements and conventions.

• Corrects issue with WPF startup when the VB6 had a startup form
• Improves general handling of controls for XAML generation
• Improves Definitions Report to indicate which SubPrograms event Handlers

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.

• Adds gmStudio Extensions Repository https://greatmigrations.atlassian.net/wiki/display/GMG/gmStudio+Extensions. Automatic Tool integration coming in a future release
• Improves default VB6 Issues list to check for control validation handlers
• Improves samples rules to inherit a stronger base control when generating COM stub control classes
• Improves sample script for adding instrumentation to VB6 codes
• Improves sample batch script for automating gmStudio from command line
• Improves sample batch script for testing translation results
• Improves sample migration rules for COM: MSComCtl.ocx, Scrrun.dll

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.

• Improves WPF Samples to use local gmSL scripts rather than system scripts

gmStudio Release News: Monday, 17-June-2019

Jun 17, 2019

gmBasic: Upgrade Engine

gmBasic is a code transformation tool that rewrites VB6/ASP/COM systems to one of the .NET languages (C# or VB.NET). Based on feedback from our clients and migration projects in the field, we are continuously improving gmBasic so as to help users more easily produce cleaner and more correct results. This distribution, Version 30.89, includes several enhancements:

• Improves the general ability to produce accurate, build-complete .NET (C# and VB.NET) systems from ASP sites (most recently making enhancements needed to upgrade a large e-mail marketing system with over 1000 pages and almost 300 #includes.)
• Improves the general ability to produce accurate, build-complete .NET (C# and VB.NET) systems from VB6 applications (most recently making enhancements needed to upgrade a structural engineering application (130K LOC) and a reinsurance application (120K LOC).)
• Adds Refactor\Fixtype@status=dynamic to allow translating with a strong type but authoring the code to use type dynamic
• Adds Registry@type=MigFile to allow associating a Migration File with a COM interface file
• Improves handling pages with deeply nested and inter-dependent #include files in ASP
• Improves handling user defined VBScript class named “Collection” in ASP
• Improves handling const in ASP
• Improves handling arrays used in foreach
• Improves type inference when variable is declared and initialized on same line of code
• Improves handling to intrinsic RegExp API for ASP
• Improves handling parameters to VB6’s file Open statement
• Improves handling parameters to DrawMode property
• Improves handling parameters to Scale method
• Improves handling the Call keyword

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 continuously adding functionality to gmStudio and making it easier to use. This distribution includes several enhancements:

• Adds Peek Reporting mode for inspecting content surrounding a search result
• Improves Search reporting when using a Report file as a search source
• Improves System Configuration Search to include application templates folder as a search source
• Improves integration of file edit operation with Search results
• Improves integration of Side-by-Side viewer with Search results
• Improves display of .NET files in Side-by-Side viewer when one source file becomes many .NET files
• Improves translation log report details for warning messages
• Improves Reference Report by reporting declaring form/control containing control references
• Improves license checks in ScriptRules files
• Improves accuracy of Members Report for ASP

gmslAPI: a .NET API for Developing Advanced Upgrade Solutions

Powered by gmBasic, gmslAPI is a .NET API for automating the gmBasic upgrade engine and accessing the semantic models produced by our unique linguistic compilation technology. gmslAPI also includes classes to facilitate the integration and management of complex upgrade rules in gmStudio. This API was updated to reflect the latest product improvements and conventions.

• Improves Reference Report by reporting declaring form/control containing control references
• Corrects Reference Report to avoid exception when a reference occurs in a very long source line

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 CodeScanList.txt: additional entries in preset list of Potential VB6 Issues

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: Wednesday, 01-May-2019

Apr 30, 2019

gmBasic: Upgrade Engine

gmBasic is a code transformation tool that rewrites VB6/ASP/COM systems to one of the .NET languages (C# or VB.NET). Based on feedback from our clients and migration projects in the field, we are continuously improving gmBasic so as to help users more easily produce cleaner and more correct results. This distribution, Version 30.84, includes several enhancements:

• Improves the general ability to produce accurate, build-complete .NET (C# and VB.NET) systems from ASP sites (most recently making enhancements needed to upgrade a large e-mail marketing system with over 1000 pages and almost 300 #includes.)
• Improves handling the ASPErrorObject
• Improves handling VB6 codes with very long Conditional Compilation settings in the VBP file

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 continuously adding functionality to gmStudio and making it easier to use. This distribution includes several enhancements:

• Improves Search Reporting to allow searching ASP site code based on the list of files processed by the translator
• Improves Search Reporting to allow using gmStudio Report files as a search source
• Improves Definitions Report to report immediate parent of each defined symbol
• Improves Definitions Report to report a Handler attribute for Subprograms that are event handlers
• Improves handling projects that reference missing source files
• Improves handling deployment reporting
• Adds support for showing columns keys rather than descriptions in the Search Reports results
• Adds support for reporting Processed File messages in the Translation Log report
• Improves working with project content located on a UNC path
• Adds support for suppressing session logging by setting Max Session Lines to 0

gmslAPI: a .NET API for Developing Advanced Upgrade Solutions

Powered by gmBasic, gmslAPI is a .NET API for automating the gmBasic upgrade engine and accessing the semantic models produced by our unique linguistic compilation technology. gmslAPI also includes classes to facilitate the integration and management of complex upgrade rules in gmStudio. This API was updated to reflect the latest product improvements and conventions.

• Improves Definitions Report to report immediate parent of each defined symbol; This is helpful for analysing sub program parameters
• Improves Definitions Report to report a Handler attribute to Subprograms that are event handlers

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 CodeScanList.txt: additional entries in preset list of Potential VB6 Issues

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: Wednesday, 20-March-2019

Mar 19, 2019

gmBasic: Upgrade Engine

gmBasic is a code transformation tool that rewrites VB6/ASP/COM systems to one of the .NET languages (C# or VB.NET). Based on feedback from our clients and migration projects in the field, we are continuously improving gmBasic so as to help users more easily produce cleaner and more correct results. This distribution, Version 30.82, includes several enhancements:

• Improves the general ability to produce accurate, build-complete .NET (C# and VB.NET) systems from VB6 code (most recently making enhancements needed to upgrade a large ERP system with 326 VBPs referencing 1,369 code files containing 1.3M LOC and 50 third-party-COM components)
• Improves migration of PropertyBag and PropertyPage
• Improves support for using Debug Build Configuration
• Improves support for VBScript classes in ASP translations
• Improves support for ASPErr Object in ASP translations
• Improves translation of DragOver and DragDrop events
• Improves diagnostic reporting for migrating implicit conversions and Type Inference operations
• Improves translation of LoadResPicture function
• Corrects issue with Event/Method Name Clash when BuildFile=global
• Improves handling IIf when return values have different types.
• Improves Naming convention for same-named ASP pages
• Improves handling “New class.member” references in ASP
• Improves handling ScaleModeConstants enumeration
• Improves handling Arrays declared using type-indicator characters
• Improves recognizing properties of Global Multiuse classes
• Improves migrating complex IIf expressions

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 continuously adding functionality to gmStudio and making it easier to use. This distribution includes several enhancements:

• Improves Source Search performance by using multi-threaded logic
• Improves Side-by-Side Viewer to allow manually selecting files displayed
• Improves handling of ASP with VBScript classes on the the Side-by-Side form
• Improves behavior of Reporting Only mode when project exceeds license limits
• Improves handling regex expression errors on Search panel

gmslAPI: a .NET API for Developing Advanced Upgrade Solutions

Powered by gmBasic, gmslAPI is a .NET API for automating the gmBasic upgrade engine and accessing the semantic models produced by our unique linguistic compilation technology. gmslAPI also includes classes to facilitate the integration and management of complex upgrade rules in gmStudio. This API was updated to reflect the latest product improvements and conventions.

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 CodeScanList.txt for translation audit reporting
• Improves GlobalStubs.xml for generating global stub framework

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.

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