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.

Understood, thanks for the explanation.

What happens on Sunday? Just curious...

It was just a cheeky comment, but admittedly it does look like site driving. I've deleted it.

You need a proper cross-dev tool, CBM prg Studio www.ajordison.co.uk

Only young farts, presumably.

But with more swearing.

Send a few flat earthers...

CodeWraith wrote:

Poor old Werner is rotating in his grave now.

But we don't know which way...

Let's hope he's not spending the rest of eternity on a C5.

Especially if there's a chance of a misconception.

I'd like to say "let's hope so" but I'm not sure.

It has a non-functioning keyboard though, so you'll have to use a third party tool (like CBM prg Studio) and then 'upload' your program to it.

Pom Pey wrote:

From the keyboard factory.....I was wasn't putting in enough shifts.

FTFY

Not to be confused with the Manuel Handling one I watched by accident once...

Has Anyone Seen Mike Hunt wrote:

I have pubic hair older than you.

Yes but who's is it?

Yes this is the approach I tried first, but I still had the same problem when I hit an 'else', i.e. which 'else' is it?

I've written a 6502 assembler (for Commodore machines) and one of its features is conditional assembly, like this;

ifdef var1

else

elseif

So if var1 is defined then is assembled, else . However I want to expand this by allowing nested conditional assembly, like this:

ifdef var1
ifdef var2

else

endif
else

endif

Basically the way my assembler works at the moment is if the 'ifdef' condition fails (the variable is not defined) then all of the code following it (until the corresponding 'else' directive) is ignored. It's the 'corresponding else' part which is the problem here. How do I determine which 'else' corresponds with which 'ifdef'? Please note that I can't use the code indentation to determine which 'level' the directives are on. In real life, all of the code will be in the first column (no indentation at all) as my assembler needs directives to be in the first column. I don't need specific code as such, I'm more interested in an algorithm for this. In case you're interested, here's my assembler: www.ajordison.co.uk

I have a similar story with meals. My mother's rule was if you didn't eat it you went hungry. I think the biggest change for me is that you don't see kids playing outside anymore. When I was young I would disappear for hours at a time, the only real concern being if I didn't turn up for meals. Nowadays parents (including myself) are scared to let their kids play outside, even though I'm sure that the perceived danger isn't as bad as it is. In fact I think that back then it was easier to get in trouble as it was harder to get caught.

I lost my train of thought with this one. (Sorry)