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Visual Studio had a built-in migration utility which could get you 80-90% there. However if the original VB6 was spaghetti code written without Option Strict and Option Explicit enabled you had much bigger problems.

The biggest breaking change was the removal of the global Printer Object so any printing code needed a complete rewrite.

The bundling of .NET Framework with Windows held back C# for many years because it tied its support lifecycle to that of Windows.

The runtime changes needed to improve the language could not be made easily due to the need to support it for 10+ years.

Smaller biotechnology don't compete with big pharma they collaborate and partner with them every step of the way. They need companies like Pfizer which have the resources and expertise to fund more R&D, complete clinical trials and get drugs approved world wide.

The hardest part of learning dvorak is losing the ability to type Crtl + C, Crtl + V with one hand.

I recommend getting a gaming mouse were you can remap hot keys to spare buttons.

I read the abstract of their paper and I can tell that the paint they created will be completely useless in the real world. No paint company would be interested in this.

They used a 60% volume concentration of barium sulfate. This is very high for an exterior paint and pretty much guarantees that it will have a very poor mechanical durability. The high amount of pigment with make the paint matt and attract dirt easily. Barium sulfate doesn't absorb UV so the paint will be degraded by UV easily.