Vbp to vbproj converter

But, there isn't any reason why someone couldn't invesitgate the logic and tweak it for any of their own issues. Keyword capitalization can be guaranteed. We simply pull in Microsoft's library for maximum compatibility, and hence, do not have a large string replace library, nor do we rely as heavily as some converters do on our own DLLs or libraries we generate a few for ease of syntax, but the end result is pure C code.

Non-assuming - It makes the assumption that the code compiled while in VB, so it doesn't assume that reference it can't resolve aren't going to be found. Make Visual Studio do the work of deciding which ones are used simply by optimizing imports after conversion. C - This is a late-comer.

NET is more or less discontinued, why not? Known Issues v1 only Currently, the converter will often balk at a file that contains the word 'Property' anywhere in it other than a property declaration. While this is a pain and likely will be fixed, it was encountered towards the end of the projects usefulness and hence not urgent on the repair list , and where it hindered progress, the variable that contained the word ' Property' was simply renamed temporarily to something like ' Prppty', and then changed back in the converted file.

This has been addressed in Version 2, however it may still appear in some cases in v1. Down-sides This will not produce code that will compile in its generated form. The last mile is simply the most expensive to automate, and often best to do manually. It seemed more expedient to make something get most of the way, and finish any edge cases or final conversion by hand.

Limited UI customziation but limitless code-based customization. This isn't the most customizable solution. Unless, of course, you want to dive into a little source code on the converter. But, that's why its available. Unlinted output. The resultant code is a mess, stylistically. That's what a modern IDE is for.

It's tedius, but do a project-wide search for all for loops and manually inspect the bounds. There is an extra method for every event. One for the correct signature, one for the original signature. In most cases, the redundancy is unnecessary, but it provided the easiest conversion. These can be reduced to a single method in most cases but not all, which is why I don't. Pluses It's free. You have the source customize it, whatever.

Do the whole thing or just one file at a time. It's a lot better than doing it all by hand. It will give you a good insight into what's going on, without having to ALL of the manual effort to do a simple conversion. I did this on a modestly sized project, and the whole conversion took only a day or two. It was FAR faster than the original writing. I noticed it had some pixelToTwips stuff in there, and I started removing that line by line.

The other thing I notice is the use of control arrays. I am going to repaint the screen on a new form, and create arrays of controls explicitly the code is hidden in the designer.

It's not perfect, but it was a huge step in the right direction. Will try this soon, but I would imagine my k LOC project will not convert.

At least, not to your satisfaction. What RVW is talking about is pretty simple apps, which may well convert well enough.

Even in that case, he said he was manually cleaning up some code. Besides, there is a crucial step that you probably can't perform: Open the project in VB Express The key here is that was the last year that included the conversion application, which is why it worked at all.

That conversion wizard was always pretty lousy and worked only somewhat on smaller programs. It was dropped entirely after as a bad piece of work. The languages are too different for any kind of automatic conversion to really matter. Vbet6 regards Chris to hunt a species to extinction is not logical!

This answer is wrong. You should be using TableAdapter and Dictionaries instead. Acceptance Tests: 1 Does it work? Shaggy Hiker is more or less on the mark with what the acceptance test suite for such a thing might be.

You left out "I was translating a single-form hobbyist app". Those are so simple one can usually convert them by hand faster than installing 3 separate versions of Visual Studio and mucking about with multiple tools. The kind of people who usually ask about this tool are converting big enterprise apps and curious if it "just works", so it's important to mention the product scale so as not to mislead them.

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Fortunately, in VB6 has become popular again, so porting is not really necessary because a new version of VB6 is on the horizon. Re: Fortunately, in Visual Basic 6 has become popular again! I really hope this happens.

I've been porting several Apps to VB. Net, but would love to have a modern version of VB6. Net is just to big and clumsy, and holds VB programmers back. VB6 has risen to 6th most popular language in April My application s contain more than , LOC.

Should I Migrate? Best regards, Jawad Jawad Munir. An older post rookie12w Oct Good day. I sent you a post on an older project you created. Your slide show project. Could you check it and hopefully get back to me? Where do you put the following codes? Would you explain more detail about the codes? Use DoEvents sparingly! Calling DoEvents has a big performance hit, so use it sparingly. Well basically, Visual Basic DoEvents is a method that is called to give the processor a chance to do something else like handle key strokes, or refresh your form.

You don't usually need to use the DoEvents method. An a good example of when you would want to use the DoEvents method is when you are reading in a large file. If you don't use the DoEvents method, your program can just lock up until processing is done, which could be a 15 seconds, or could be 5 minutes or more. Empty 'read the file in Do While reader.

ReadLine Application. DoEvents Loop End Using ' reader If you still don't fully understand how it works, then do this: Add a button to a form, and double-click on it to go to the code window. Enter this code in Button's Click event, then start the program and click the button to see what happens. Object, ByVal e As System. EventArgs Handles Button1. Click Do Loop End Sub. Datareport from vb6 davides Nov Crystal Reports included is hard to use to me and I think it doesn't have the features I need.

NET 2. Which Visual Studio are u using Member Jun Member Is it avail or vwd? Thank you Pauley. Emil - Gabriel. If you were a little more than a VB programmer, you would know that "upgrading" code from one language to another is actually "porting".

Re: "Upgrading"? Stop splitting hairs and go troll somewhere else. EDIT: before this starts to be a flame war, remember that I also program med vb6 and vb. He's harsh, but in essence right: vb. Different paradigms, different thinking, more able tools inheritance, interfaces. Plus, your app will be easier to debug, etc. If you don't embrace. NET techniques, you'll find yourself in trouble fast.

So why not learn C instead of vb. It isn't more effort than learning vb. I don't regret going from vb6 to vb. My only regret is not doing it sooner. Just try it! Why is there always someone who has to say C is superior? I can read it but I hate writing it. C sure looks like code cause it doesn't look like anything a human would write. I really don't get sharpies. What few apps we "converted" from VB6 we really just re-wrote. There were so many compromises made by the and upgrade wizards.

Thanks for the article with your insights. Thank you for your comments. One thing to think about when you are writing an article is, how will your readers find your article? A VB6 programmer that is looking for some information to help them through this process is much more likely to search by "Upgrade" rather than "Port", because they will be thinking "Upgrade from VB6 to VB.

NET", thanks to Microsoft. Even the wizard is called an "Upgrade Wizard" instead of "Port Wizard". As far as C verses VB. I am a C programmer as well. There used to be a very strong case for C's superiority to VB. However, now that we are in the.