Initial Migration

Once the Visual Basic 6.0 code is in the source control system, it is necessary to perform an initial migration to establish a migrated code baseline.

• 1. Open the Visual Basic Upgrade Companion

  

• 2. Create a Migration Solution for your code (for example C:\MergeExample\Sample1)

  

• 3. Upgrade your code

• 4. Open Explorer and navigate to the location of your VB6 code (For example C:\MergeExample\Sample1)

• 5. Under the directory where your code is located, create a new directory called GreenCode (For our example this directory will be C:\MergeExample\Sample1\GreenCode )

• 6. Copy your migrated code to GreenCode (for our example it means copying the contents of C:\MergeExample\Sample1\VB6_UpgradedCode to the C:\MergeExample\Sample1\GreenCode). This is important to establish a base line for comparison and merge

• 7. Open Microsoft Visual Studio 2005

• 8. On the Team Explorer locate your project (for example MergeExample) and double click on Source Control

• 9. On the Source Control Explorer toolbar click the Add Files button

  

• 10. Click the Add Folder button and select the GreenCode folder we just created

  

• 11. Check in the GreenCode. IMPORTANT. Add a descriptive Comment. ArtinSoft recommends AT LEAST setting the following information:

  • Green Code Date
  • VB6 Source Code Date/ version
  • VBUC version used to generate the Green Code

  

• Setup the Migrated Code Directory

See Also

• Continuous Migration Setup
• Continuous Migration Process Overview
• Continuous Migration Using Microsoft Team System
  • Migration Project Setup
  • Initial Migration
  • Setup the Migrated Code Directory
  • Perform an Incremental Migration
• Glossary