Essential .NET Training for Visual Basic 6 Developers
On this page you will find a complete series of training videos that give Visual Basic 6 developers the essential skills to start developing on the .NET platform today, whether it is completely new .NET applications, or simply adding .NET functionality to existing Visual Basic 6 applications.
Visual Basic Interop
This how-to video series is focused on the Interop Forms Toolkit and working with Visual Basic .NET and Visual Basic 6 together. The Interop Forms Toolkit allows Visual Basic developers to migrate their Visual Basic 6 applications over to .NET using a phased migration strategy. Instead of having to convert the entire VB6 application at once, the toolkit enables .NET Forms and User Controls to run directly in Visual Basic 6 applications so that you can build the pieces that you need over time.
You will need: Visual Studio and the Interop Forms Toolkit 2.1 in addition to Visual Basic 6.0
#1 | Intro to the Interop Forms Toolkit (9 minutes, 14 seconds)
#2 | Intro to the Interop Forms Toolkit, part 2 (17 minutes, 22 seconds)
#3 | How Do I: Call VB.NET components from VB6 applications? (9 minutes, 48 seconds)
#4 | How Do I: Call VB6 components from VB.NET applications? (10 minutes, 52 seconds)
#5 | How Do I: Use the .NET Framework Class Library directly from VB6? (12 minutes, 29 seconds)
Upgrading a Visual Basic 6 Application
This video series is focused on how to upgrade Visual Basic 6 applications to Visual Basic .NET, covering everything from assessing how much time it will take to upgrade an application to running the upgrade wizard. You will need: Visual Studio or Visual Basic Express in addition to Visual Basic 6.0
Presented by John Rauschenberger, CTO Clarity Consulting
- #1 | How Do I: Prepare a Visual Basic 6 application for upgrade? (11 minutes, 50 seconds)
- #2 | How Do I: Assess how the amount of effort required to upgrade a Visual Basic 6 application? (8 minutes, 7 seconds)
- #3 | How Do I: Use the Visual Basic 6 Upgrade Wizard? (22 minutes, 1 second)
- #4 | How Do I: Move from ADO to ADO.NET? ( 9 minutes, 33 seconds)
The Visual Basic .NET IDE
This how-to video series provides an in-depth analysis of the similarities and differences between the Visual Basic 6 and Visual Basic .NET development environments. Presented by Arian Kulp, Aeshen LLC You will need: Visual Studio or Visual Basic Express
- #1 | VB6 and VB.NET: The IDEs aren't as different as you may think (14 minutes, 48 seconds)
- #2 | VB6 and VB.NET: What's new in the IDE (15 minutes, 44 seconds)
- #3 | Coding and Debugging with Visual Basic .NET (15 minutes, 7 seconds)
- #4 | Speeding Visual Basic development with Code Snippets (12 minutes, 10 seconds)
Visual Basic .NET and the .NET Framework
This how-to video series is focused on familiarizing Visual Basic 6 developers with some of concepts involved in .NET development, including a COM-oriented introduction to object-oriented programming, an detailed discussion of the similarities and differences between Visual Basic 6 and .NET datatypes, and some highlights of new functionality that .NET brings to Visual Basic development. You will need: Visual Studio or Visual Basic Express.
Presented by Arian Kulp, Aeshen LLC
- #1 | Intro to Classes Objects, and Object-oriented programming (35 minutes, 57 seconds)
- #2 | Working with variables and new datatypes in Visual Basic .NET (16 minutes, 42 seconds)
- #3 | What the .NET Framework adds to Visual Basic development (25 minutes, 18 seconds)
Visual Basic .NET Data Access
This how-to video series is focused on more advanced data binding techniques using object binding in Visual Basic .NET. The series walks through creating business objects and how to associate them in one-to-many relationships, how to provide searching capabilities and how to enable sorting. You will need: Visual Studio or Visual Basic Express.
Presented by Brian Randell, MCW Technologies
- #1 | Intro to Data Access with Visual Basic .NET (13 minutes, 58 seconds)
- #2 | Connected data: Applying your ADO skills to ADO.NET (5 minutes, 41 seconds)
- #3 | Disconnected data: Moving beyond ADO to use the new DataSet object (16 minutes, 25 seconds)
- #4 | Persisting changes to your database with ADO.NET (7 minutes, 3 seconds)
Visual Basic .NET Windows Forms
The video series covers everything you need to know to build a Windows-based, forms-over-data application, from an overview of the controls that come with the .NET Framework, to building custom controls, to Click-Once deployment and updates. You will need: Visual Studio or Visual Basic Express.
Presented by Brian Randell, MCW Technologies
- #1 | Building rich Windows applications with Visual Basic .NET (7 minutes, 34 seconds)
- #2 | Creating custom controls with Visual Basic .NET (24 minutes, 38 seconds)
- #3 | Integrating data into Windows Forms applications (17 minutes, 18 seconds)
- #4 | Deploying a Windows Application with Click Once (8 minutes, 34 seconds)
Visual Basic .NET Web Development
This how-to video series is focused on web development with Visual Basic .NET. Learn how to build an ASP.NET application and web services with many of the same techniques you mastered with Visual Basic 6. Check out ASP.NET Videos for more video tutorials. You will need: Visual Studio or Visual Web Developer Express.
Presented by Brian Randell, MCW Technologies
- #1 | Building ASP.NET applications with Visual Basic .NET (23 minutes, 32 seconds)
- #2 | Using web services with Visual Basic .NET (12 minutes, 30 seconds)