gmStudio Release News: Thursday, July 27, 2017

Jul 26, 2017

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.