491  Francesco Balena on VB to .NET Migration

Francesco Balena talks about his groundbreaking work in migrating VB6 applications to VB.NET

Francesco Balena is one of the two Microsoft Regional Directors for Italy and author of the Programming Visual Basic series (four editions: VB6, VB2002, VB2003, and VB2005) published by Microsoft Press, author of Programming Visual C#: The Base Class Library, co-author of Advanced .NET Framework Programming with VB.NET (with Jeffrey Richter) and Practical Code Guidelines for VB.NET and C# Developers (with Giuseppe Dimauro). He wrote for Visual Studio Magazine, MSDN Magazine, and other technical magazines, and spoke at many conferences for developers in US and Europe. He launched a few websites for developers - including www.vb2themax.com which later became www.dotnet2themax.com - and www.vbmigration.com, the only website entirely devoted to VB6-to-.NET migration. Francesco is co-founder of Code Architects, an Italian software company that specializes on Microsoft technologies and programming, and is the main author of VB Migration Partner, an innovative tool for migrating VB6 apps of any size and complexity to .NET. Code Architects is member of the Visual Studio Industry Partner (VSIP, VB Migration Partner) and of the ISV NXT program.

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