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3rd Party Library Support

Since there are hundreds of controls and vendors in the VB6 market, many migration customers are looking to automatically convert their references to legacy 3rd party components to revamped .NET versions. The Visual Basic Upgrade Companion’s core functionalities can be customized to satisfy your specific VB6 to .NET migration needs in terms of control/library automated conversion ratio.

The VBUC’s extensibility approach allows you to automatically upgrade your specific programming patterns, to add some new functionality on the migrated .NET application, and also to convert the ActiveX controls that you have in the original application to .NET Framework components or newer versions of those specific third-party controls, saving manual efforts, time and money on your VB to .NET migration projects.

Below you can find a list with the ActiveX controls that are currently supported by default by the Visual Basic Upgrade Companion Enterprise Edition:

Original Component/Library	From	Target Component/Library	Vendor
COMSVCSLib	Microsoft	.NET intrinsic	Microsoft
CSTextLib	Crescent Software	C1Input	ComponentOne
FPSpread	FarPoint	Spread	FarPoint
MAPI	Microsoft	.NET intrinsic	Microsoft
Mh3dlblLib	MicroHelp	.NET intrinsic	Microsoft
MSACAL	Microsoft	.NET intrinsic	Microsoft
MSComCtl2	Microsoft	.NET intrinsic	Microsoft
MSComCtlLib	Microsoft	.NET intrinsic	Microsoft
MSComDlg	Microsoft	.NET intrinsic	Microsoft
MSDataGridLib	Microsoft	TrueDBGrid	ComponentOne
MSDBGridLib	Microsoft	TrueDBGrid	ComponentOne
MSFlexGridLib	Microsoft	FlexGrid	ComponentOne
MSMask	Microsoft	.NET intrinsic	Microsoft
MSWLess	Microsoft	.NET intrinsic	Microsoft
MSXML2	Microsoft	.NET intrinsic	Microsoft
MTxAS	Microsoft	.NET intrinsic	Microsoft
vb.Printer	Microsoft	Helper class	ArtinSoft
RichTextBox	Microsoft	.NET equivalents	Microsoft
Scripting	Microsoft	.NET intrinsic	Microsoft
SHDocVw	Microsoft	.NET intrinsic	Microsoft
SSActiveTreeView	Sheridan	.NET TreeView	Microsoft
SSCalendarWidgets	Sheridan	.NET equivalents	Microsoft
SSDataWidgets_B	Sheridan	TrueDBGrid	ComponentOne
SSDataWidgets_B	Sheridan	UltraWinGrid	Infragistics
SSDesignerWidgets	Sheridan	.NET TabControl	Microsoft
SSListBar	Sheridan	UltraWinListBar	Infragistics
SSSpliter	Sheridan	.NET SplitContainer	Microsoft
Threed	Sheridan	.NET TabControl	Microsoft
TrueDBGrid50Lib	APEX	TrueDBGrid	ComponentOne
TrueDBGrid60Lib	APEX	TrueDBGrid	ComponentOne
TrueDBGrid70Lib	APEX	TrueDBGrid	ComponentOne
VSFlex7Ctl	VideoSoft	C1FlexGrid	ComponentOne
VSFlex7LCtl	VideoSoft	C1FlexGrid	ComponentOne
VSOcxLib	Sheridan	.NET intrinsic	Microsoft
XArrayCustom	APEX	Helper class	ArtinSoft
XArrayObject	APEX	.NET intrinsic	Microsoft

The Visual Basic Upgrade Companion features a user-customizable mapping engine called the Custom Maps extensibility. This means the user can specify particular transformations for element occurrences in the original VB6 code, so that they can be converted (mapped) into specific library elements, intrinsic or 3rd party. As a result, the overall VB to .NET migration process’ precision can be enhanced by creating personalized mappings to handle conflictive or particular elements.