Tim Kinslow

Many businesses are pursuing migration strategies that will allow them to begin leveraging some of the major benefits of .NET in the short term, such as managed code and Web services, while positioning them to further build on the platform in the future. But developers have several options to choose among, from a "face lift" to migrating just the user interface tier, to a "just do it" approach for the entire system, encompassing full design, development, and deployment in .NET. This session will address how to assess the business objectives and then plan migration based on current infrastructure, from the complexity and separation of the code base, to COM objects in use, and the database structure. We will take a look at the benefits that organizations seek in migrating applications from ASP to ASP.NET. .NET Makeover. Just Do It! Many businesses are pursuing migrat... (more)

.NET Makeover

As developers in the 1990s, we became accustomed to migrating applications from one version of VB to the next. We expected Microsoft to continually provide new VB releases that addressed feedback from the developer community (also known as "identified bugs"), made VB software developers more productive, and took another step toward "true" object-oriented (OO) programming. While Active Server Pages (and VBScript) provided a foothold into Web development, they also represented a step backward in the path to building OO systems. .NET is the realization of the drive toward full obj... (more)