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• Support Statement: Dealing with “bad” code
• Support Statement: Reducing Late Calls, CallByName/dynamic
• Support Statement: DataLib
• Support Statement: Integrated Build
• Support Statement: Modifying VB6 Source Files
• Support Statement: Target Architecture Changes
• Support Statement: Upgrading .NET interop dependencies
• Support Statement: Unit Testing MigrationSupport.DataLib
• Support Statement: Verifying a Migration Solution
• Support Statement: ADO to ADO.NET?
• Support Statement: oo40 to Oracle Data Provider for .NET
• Support Statement: Type Inference and Type Replacement
• Support Statement: Office Upgrade
• Support Statement: Translation Challenges
• Support Statement: Automated Testing
• Support Statement: Removing Code
• Support Statement: Reference is not open
• Support Statement: What is an easy COM replacement?
• Support Statement: MigrationSupport (gmRTL) Source Code
• Support Statement: Duplicate COM symbols in different TypeLibs
• Support Statement: Helping with resolving a Build Error
• Support Statement: Refactor Remove, Reauthor and Spec codes
• Support Statement: License Activation
• Support Statement: Custom Build Order
• Support Statement: Dealing with Library/Class Name Clash
• Support Statement: Dealing with multiple versions of the same class in IDF
• Support Statement: Dealing with name clashes in COM stub classes
• Support Statement: Dealing with TypeLib Alias
• Support Statement: Making a control into a class
• Support Statement: What is a Build-Complete ASP Upgrade?
• Support Statement: Techniques for Weak Typing and ref Tempargs
• Support Statement: Running and Comparing results for a test code
• Support Statement: add a gmSL routine to a translation script
• Support Statement: Dealing with multi-dimensional Arrays
• Support Statement: Modifying the migration of a VB6 Intrinsic Function (e.g., Split)
• Support Statement: System Metalanguage Files
• Support Statement: VB6 Forms Upgrade Strategy
• Support Statement: Type Inference Limitations
• Support Statement: VB6 Refactoring
• Support Statement: VS Version Selection
• Support Statement: Large Sample
• Support Statement: Making a new Metalang File
• Support Statement: gmSL Handlers and Commands
• Support Statement: Designer Control GUID
• Support Statement: VBA Applications
• Support Statement: Microsoft Access Applications
• Support Statement: Setting Up IDFs
• Support Statement: Running a specific gmStudio other than the installed version
• Support Statement: Remove Application Function and Replace Calls
• Support Statement: Dealing with Source Code Changes
• Support Statement: How to get the list of COM interfaces implemented by a COM class
• Support Statement: Dealing with symbol case changes
• Support Statement: IDFs for interop assemblies
• Support Statement: Twips to Pixels
• Support Statement: What happened to my filenames?
• Support Statement: Making an Upgrade Unit Test
• Support Statement: “Unexpected” gmAPI Behavior
• Support Statement: .NET Build Standards, Framework, Core, and Common
• Support Statement: Proprietary Designers (e.g. ActiveReports)
• Support Statement: Local Migration to remove an argument from calls
• Support Statement: hybrid upgrade of Toolbar.Buttons.Add to WinForms extension
• Support Statement: Apply PreEdits using gmsl
• Support Statement: Unable to open language file (VB7lang.vbi)
• Support Statement: Using GlobalIncludes
• Support Statetment: ReplaceFile for Stubs
• Support Statement: Using str.Length instead of str.Len()
• Support Statetment: ReplaceFile for AppObject
• Support Statement: Retaining Short in a COM API
• Support Statement: Migrate Form_Load as event handler
• Support Statement: Translating Client-Side VBScript and VBS files
• Support Statement: Using a gmAPI executable with gmStudio
• Support Statement: fixtype for type=VBS class in a #include
• Support Statement: Form uses stub controls and Designer Crashes
• Support Statement: msxml2 versioned progIDs
• Support Statement: Suppress .NET Compiler warnings
• Support Statement: Override a routine in authortext.gmsl
• Support Statement: Dealing with DataEnvironment / DataReport
• Support Statement: Remove tasks from a project that do not match any entry in an “include list”
• Support Statement: Deprecating MigrationSupport namespaces
• Support Statement: Cleanup VB6 Source Directory
• Support Statement: missing IDF for mscoree.dll
• Support Statement: Upgrading VB6 Error Handling for C#
• Support Statement: How can I automatically edit a VBP file?
• Support Statement: Using gmSL for deep migrations
• Support Statement: Setting Platform for builds
• Support Statement: Using a Custom Visual Studio Version (or SDK tools)
• Support Statement: Dealing with Twips to Pixels
• Support Statement: Upgrading a COM Component property to a WinForms Static property
• Support Statement: Sample Migration of CommonDialog to Winforms
• Support Statement: Improving Type Inference for MSHTML
• Support Statement: Removing a container control (e.g. vsElastic )
• Support Statement: Setting Scope for an ASP Site Upgrade
• Support Statement: How does gmStudio run builds?
• Support Statement: Generating a Global Stub Framework
• Support Statement: ListView.Add example of using gmSL to map COM to .NET
• Support Statement: Using gmSL to determine if an optional argument was omitted
• Support Statement: using specializedHookup=“on” when migrating event handlers
• Support Statement: What is the meaning of Translation Status = SUCCESS?
• Support Statement: How many licenses?
• Support Statement: gmSL EditSource
• Support Statement: Surface Pattern Syntax
• Support Statement: Consolidating COM API versions
• Support Statement: gmBasic Script Parameter Replacement
• Support Statement: Consolidating Shared Code Files
• Support Statement: What does migStatus=“external” stand for
• Support Statement: gmStudio Licenses
• Support Statement: Stub Replacement
• Support Statement: How to selectively suppress OptionalArguments=on for a specific method
• Support Statement: Unused Symbol Analysis and Reporting
• Support Statement: GlobalSettings enhancements
• Support Statement: Dealing with Difficult GoSub migrations
• Support Statement: gmSL to move a variable declaration
• Support Statement: adding/removing Stub Framework Content
• Support Statement: Overcome the Limits of AI for Large Scale Software Modernization
• Support Statement: Partial Translations
• Support Statement: Building gmStudio Extensions using gmAPI and .NET
• Support Statement: Steps for Developing an ASP Site Upgrade
• Support Statement: updating (or ignoring) a custom meta-language file during translation
• Support Statement: Useful Search reporting patterns