Migration from VB6
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We have a suite of around 15 applications which we use to manage a MES, all written in VB6. There are around 200,000 lines of code spread over the apps, most with a SQL DB but the apps are quite simple, e.g. no custom controls. Can anyone recommend a service/utility to convert these to a .net winforms language? We haven't decided which one yet but probably C#. There will probably only be one or two devs working on this so writing from scratch isn't really an option. Surprisingly we have a budget so we're not limited to free tools. Any suggestions greatly appreciated.
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We have a suite of around 15 applications which we use to manage a MES, all written in VB6. There are around 200,000 lines of code spread over the apps, most with a SQL DB but the apps are quite simple, e.g. no custom controls. Can anyone recommend a service/utility to convert these to a .net winforms language? We haven't decided which one yet but probably C#. There will probably only be one or two devs working on this so writing from scratch isn't really an option. Surprisingly we have a budget so we're not limited to free tools. Any suggestions greatly appreciated.
I don't think you'll have much luck with finding anything that converts VB6 to .NET. The two are fundamentally different in many ways, and it's not simply a matter of translating syntax.
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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We have a suite of around 15 applications which we use to manage a MES, all written in VB6. There are around 200,000 lines of code spread over the apps, most with a SQL DB but the apps are quite simple, e.g. no custom controls. Can anyone recommend a service/utility to convert these to a .net winforms language? We haven't decided which one yet but probably C#. There will probably only be one or two devs working on this so writing from scratch isn't really an option. Surprisingly we have a budget so we're not limited to free tools. Any suggestions greatly appreciated.
A Jordison wrote:
so writing from scratch isn't really an option
I think that is about to change, I have never heard of a successful or even adequate conversion utility. This used to be my bread and butter, a total rewrite is going to be your best option. And for Ghu's sake do not outsource the project, you need to domain knowledge to do this properly.
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We have a suite of around 15 applications which we use to manage a MES, all written in VB6. There are around 200,000 lines of code spread over the apps, most with a SQL DB but the apps are quite simple, e.g. no custom controls. Can anyone recommend a service/utility to convert these to a .net winforms language? We haven't decided which one yet but probably C#. There will probably only be one or two devs working on this so writing from scratch isn't really an option. Surprisingly we have a budget so we're not limited to free tools. Any suggestions greatly appreciated.
