How Do I: Porting and Upgrading

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See the following how-to topics to port your existing applications, upgrade to the latest Visual C++, or write code for maximum portability:

Upgrade Existing Visual C++ Applications

• Previous versions of 32-bit Visual C++

• Previous versions of 16-bit Visual C++

• Previous run-time libraries to the Standard C++ library

• Previous Visual C++ Enterprise Edition projects

Port Visual C++

• To and from non-Intel platforms

• To and from non-Visual C++ development environments

• From other languages

Port or Upgrade ActiveX Controls (Formerly OLE Controls) and Visual Basic Controls

• Upgrade existing controls to use new ActiveX features

• Upgrade existing controls to be used on the Internet

• Port between 16-Bit and 32-Bit ActiveX controls

• Port Visual Basic controls and existing CDK projects

• Port ActiveX controls to other applications

Upgrade In-Process Servers

• To Active document servers

Upgrade WinHelp

• From previous versions of WinHelp

Design Applications for Maximum Portability

• Write code that works on the largest number of platforms

• Write code that works in the largest number of C compilers

• Write code that is easy to internationalize