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May 12The Logic Behind Modern Maintenance
by in CodeSOD on 2012-06-07When the big merger was announced, the IT staff of both corporations was a little bit nervous, and with good reason: The day after the announcement, many redundant positions were eliminated. Miraculously, the IT staff on both sides was left almost untouched. With the integration of two disparate code bases, there was a lot of work ahead.
The Odd Couple
During this process, Doyle discovered that his development group inherited a widely used enterprise-level suite of Visual Basic 6 client-based apps from "the other side." Doyle and his team were used to working in VB.NET, C# and ASP.NET; they felt a little taken aback at this news. But no matter, they thought -- it was only Visual Basic.