John Browne

Glad we could help!

Based on your log file, it looks like you might have a corrupted installation of VBUC. It happens--I had the same problem not that long ago. Good news is you can follow the steps here to fix it: https://www.mobilize.net/vbtonet/error-retrieving-the-com-class-factory-for-component-with-clsid-7b11c67c12-105a-4f42-a5c8-cb9070f2855a7d-failed-due-to-the-following-error-80040154

Even if you don't have a license for the VBUC you can still use it to analyze your VB6 application. This analysis will provide you with some information about your project(s) like number of lines of code (LOC), design lines, components, and more. Launch the VBUC and point to a folder containing a *.vbp file (valid VB6 project). Then go to the Tools menu and click Assessment: Click run, and the assessment will process all the files it finds. If you get an "unresolved references" warning, you can click the "Resolve References" button on the left and resolve those references (right click the missing reference and browse to its external location). Results will appear in a browser:

As Olman said above, not all properties, methods, or events from ActiveX components are guaranteed to be supported by newer, equivalent classes in .NET

How do you get a license for the VBUC trial? This question comes up frequently. When you sign up for a trial, our bot will automatically send you a "welcome" email with a .lic file attached. You can save that file somewhere and browse to it from the licensing screen inside the VBUC. The license will let you TEST the VBUC on a VB6 project up to 10,000 lines of code. But sometimes the email gets blocked, or sent to a spam folder, because it has an attachment. You don't actually need the email at all. You can download the license directly from inside the VBUC licensing screen. This article explains how. Your only requirement is to use the same email address you used to sign up for the trial. That's how we index the database--if you use a different email address we won't be able to generate a license. If you need larger trial license, contact us. We can arrange for that in most cases but we need to understand the reason first.

It looks like the problem might be related to the existing installation of VS2010. The installer looks for a file called VSIXInstaller.exe which is also on your VS2010 instance; but the SL Bridge doesn't support 2010 so there's a built in conflict. Suggestion is to rename C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\VSIXInstaller.exe to vsixinstaller.bak, then re-run the SL Bridge setup program. After it's completed, you can rename the VS2010 file back to .exe. Note: we're not sure this will work, but it's easier than uninstalling VS2010.

Sorry for the delay, this is a bit puzzling. We think it might be related to the version(s) of Visual Studio installed on the dev machine. Can you check and tell us please which versions of Visual Studio are installed?

Hi @wangw, you inspired me to write a blog post about this problem and how to fix it. You can read it here: https://www.mobilize.net/blog/vb6-to-.net-missing-a-reference

Hi Zimo85, Can you provide a little more information? Did you have the Silverlight Bridge previously installed? If so, did you uninstall it before running this setup using the Control Panel or did you uninstall it from inside Visual Studio?

This has cropped up before: it's a VS problem. See and also here: https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/2891723/microsoft-appxpackage-targets-causes-build-failures for a workaround.

Hello Jack, Are you sure this is a conforming and complete Windows Phone Silverlight project (version 8.0 or 8.1)? If so, and you don't see the migration option, try uninstalling the extension and reinstalling it as an admin.

Yes, VBUC fully supports Windows 10 and all prior versions back to XP.

Let's start a thread here documenting the things that will have to be done after migrating a C# app to HTML with WebMAP. I'd like to see both issues identified as well as solutions and even code if possible. I'll start: Printing: Suppose your Windows app performs a printing task, perhaps an invoice to be mailed or a shipping label.You might have used Microsoft Word as a formatting tool before you sent your file to the printer as well. In your browser, you won't have access either to a printer or to Word for formatting. Solution: Create a PDF. Here's a web service from Adobe that will create a PDF from XML data. Then you can pass a link to the PDF to the browser for downloading to the local machine for offline printing. If you don't want to use LiveCycle from Adobe, here's an article describing taking an HTML view and creating a PDF from it.

Here are two blog posts (so far) that drill down on our app architecture: http://www.mobilize.net/blog/webmap-app-architecture-part-1 http://www.mobilize.net/blog/webmap-app-architecture-part-2

Great question. There's a short answer, and a longer one. The short answer is: on the server side, we create an ASP.NET MVC single page application. We also use Unity framework from Microsoft for inversion of control (aka dependency injection) as part of our state management approach. We also use some JavaScript frameworks, such as KendoUI from Telerik, or AngularJS (with Bootstrap). On the client side we use HTML5 and CSS with either Kendo or Angular for MVVM. Our Angular target (you have to choose when migrating an app between targeting Kendo for a more Windows-like UX or Angular for a more Web-like UX) includes Bootstrap for responsive design. For the longer answer check the blog--I have one article that introduces our architecture and will be creating more soon.