Upgrade Question: VB6 to VB.NET 2.0

[SiriusBlackOp]

Anybody know how to convert this to VB.NET? Or is this something stupid in VB6 that we no longer have to even think about anymore. Upgrade Wizard gave the following:

'UPGRADE_ISSUE: Form method frmMain.PopupMenu was not upgraded. 
'Click for more: 'ms-help://MS.VSCC.v80/dv_commoner/local/redirect.htm?keyword="CC4C7EC0-C903-48FC-ACCC-81861D12DA4A"'

Me.PopupMenu(Me.mnuTray)

I have a feeling I'm going to have some more stupid questions like this. Ugh.

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[Sorwen]

I've not tried any upgrades so I can't say on that, but if you can give a little more detail on where that line shows up in your code I might be able to help. Is that in a function you created, in the forms create code, what kind of object is PopupMenu (file menu/right click menu), are you getting the line from the wizard or does it error there when you try to run, etc.

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[SiriusBlackOp]

It's a VB6 sample code for an API, and by posting all of it I would probably be violating the EULA.

It's some goofy code. It looks like they are using the MouseMove event, capturing the X & Y cords, checking to see if the X matches a certain value and then using that to display a useless menu.

Better yet, the global constants that hold the X comparison values are labeled as Left Button Double Click and Right Button Up??? WTF? It's no wonder I'm confused.

Whoever wrote this needs to lay off the drugs for a while.


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[Sorwen]

lol. I'm not the least surprised. My opinion has always been too much Microsoft rots the brain and that sound like too much Microsoft.

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[SBendBuckeye]

What behavior do you see in VB6 when you run the code?

 

[HarleyQuinn]

VB2005 doesn't support PopUpMenu anymore and I'm pretty sure that it won't auto-convert code that uses it. I think it'd have to be a ContextMenuStrip instead.

Hope this helps

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[SiriusBlackOp]

It's the way I described the code. It's just crappy code written into a sample, which is why it's funny.

I've got the app roughly converted to .NET 2.0 now. I just have to go through and get rid of all the junk from the VB6 namesspace, remove all the Var = Nothing type of crap that Garbage Collection now handles, so on and so forth.

Thanks anyway!


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