VB.net - C# converter

[Tana]

Hi,

My company wants to migrate all our apps from vb.net to c#.
Can someone recommend a good migrate/convert tool?
I am hoping that such a tool can do a 90-95% work for me, and I will do the rest :)

I am using VS 2005.

thanks

[Arne Vajhøj]

Re: VB.net - C# converter

Tana wrote:

My company wants to migrate all our apps from vb.net to c#.
Can someone recommend a good migrate/convert tool?
I am hoping that such a tool can do a 90-95% work for me, and I will do
the rest :)
>
I am using VS 2005.

Several such tools exist.

Local apps and web apps.

I do not use VS.

SharpDevelop has a little tool to do it.

You can find a lot of alternatives via Google.

90-95% does not sound unrealistic, but you may still
want a person to go over the code anyway.

Arne

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Re: VB.net - C# converter

Tana,

http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/?id=languageconverters&lang=en

Be aware that converting from C# to VB.Net is much easier than visa versa and therefore there are much more good C#->VB.Net converters than good VB.Net -C# converters.

I hope this helps,

Cor
"Tana" <tana@verizon.n etschreef in bericht news:%23Ww1l%23 T2GHA.476@TK2MS FTNGP06.phx.gbl ...
Hi,

My company wants to migrate all our apps from vb.net to c#.
Can someone recommend a good migrate/convert tool?
I am hoping that such a tool can do a 90-95% work for me, and I will do the rest :)

I am using VS 2005.

thanks

[David Anton]

RE: VB.net - C# converter

You can expect much better than 90-95%.
Try the various demo/trial editions of the available converters (including
ours), and pick the best one.
--
David Anton

https://www.tangiblesoftwaresolutions.com

Instant C#: VB to C# converter
Instant VB: C# to VB converter
Instant C++: C#/VB to C++ converter
C# Code Metrics: Quick metrics for C#


"Tana" wrote:

Hi,
>
My company wants to migrate all our apps from vb.net to c#.
Can someone recommend a good migrate/convert tool?
I am hoping that such a tool can do a 90-95% work for me, and I will do the rest :)
>
I am using VS 2005.
>
thanks
>

[David Anton]

Re: VB.net - C# converter

I don't think that's true. We make both VB to C# and C# to VB converters and
they each have major challenges:

VB to C#:
The main challenge is to sort out the extremely high level of ambiguity and
diverse syntax alternatives. In addition, there are syntax alternatives from
*many* years back that are still supported in VB.NET.

C# to VB:
One main challenge is parsing - since there is no one-to-one correspondence
of line to statement you have to be able to parse possibly fragmented or
combined C# lines into sensible C# statements. Another challenge is that C#
doesn't spell out everything in agonizing detail like VB, so you need to work
harder to identify things (e.g., is the entity after the colon in a class
header a class or interface?, e.g., which methods will need "Implements " tags
- you need to have logic to accurately determine that).
--
David Anton

https://www.tangiblesoftwaresolutions.com

Instant C#: VB to C# converter
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"Cor Ligthert [MVP]" wrote:

Tana,
>

http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/?id=languageconverters&lang=en

>
Be aware that converting from C# to VB.Net is much easier than visa versa and therefore there are much more good C#->VB.Net converters than good VB.Net -C# converters.
>
I hope this helps,
>
Cor
"Tana" <tana@verizon.n etschreef in bericht news:%23Ww1l%23 T2GHA.476@TK2MS FTNGP06.phx.gbl ...
Hi,
>
My company wants to migrate all our apps from vb.net to c#.
Can someone recommend a good migrate/convert tool?
I am hoping that such a tool can do a 90-95% work for me, and I will do the rest :)
>
I am using VS 2005.
>
thanks
>

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Re: VB.net - C# converter

David,

>Be aware that converting from C# to VB.Net is much easier than visa versa
>and therefore there are much more good C#->VB.Net converters than good
>VB.Net -C# converters.
>>

>I don't think that's true. We make both VB to C# and C# to VB converters
>and
they each have major challenges:

You mean that Tana can take any VB.Net -C# Sharp converter and it should
not be precisely your product?

While writing my text I was thinking about your product because I know how
attentionful you are. I am not sure anymore if I have expirience with your
product. However, I have seen much more C# -VB.Net converters than visa
versa.

I have not the idea that it is because there are more people converting from
C# to VB.Net (I have in fact lately only seen one in the language.vb
newsgroup who did that completely).

:-)

Cor

[Brian Gideon]

Re: VB.net - C# converter

David,

I'm just curious. Does your C# to VB.NET converter handle anonymous
methods well?

Brian

David Anton wrote:

You can expect much better than 90-95%.
Try the various demo/trial editions of the available converters (including
ours), and pick the best one.
--
David Anton

https://www.tangiblesoftwaresolutions.com

Instant C#: VB to C# converter
Instant VB: C# to VB converter
Instant C++: C#/VB to C++ converter
C# Code Metrics: Quick metrics for C#

[David Anton]

Re: VB.net - C# converter

It converts some cases of anonymous methods, but not all.
For example, anonymous methods referencing local variables in the scope of
the anonymous method call ('captured variables') are not converted.
--
David Anton

https://www.tangiblesoftwaresolutions.com

Instant C#: VB to C# converter
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"Brian Gideon" wrote:

David,
>
I'm just curious. Does your C# to VB.NET converter handle anonymous
methods well?
>
Brian
>
David Anton wrote:

You can expect much better than 90-95%.
Try the various demo/trial editions of the available converters (including
ours), and pick the best one.
--
David Anton

https://www.tangiblesoftwaresolutions.com

Instant C#: VB to C# converter
Instant VB: C# to VB converter
Instant C++: C#/VB to C++ converter
C# Code Metrics: Quick metrics for C#

>
>

[Brian Gideon]

Re: VB.net - C# converter

David,

Yeah, I figured captured variables would be difficult to convert. In
fact, I'm not sure how you would do it without implementing part of the
C# specification. There are some intricate rules regarding the
lifetime of the captured variables. It would be cool if you could
somehow accomplish that without too much effort.

Brian

David Anton wrote:

It converts some cases of anonymous methods, but not all.
For example, anonymous methods referencing local variables in the scope of
the anonymous method call ('captured variables') are not converted.
--
David Anton

https://www.tangiblesoftwaresolutions.com

Instant C#: VB to C# converter
Instant VB: C# to VB converter
Instant C++: C#/VB to C++ converter
C# Code Metrics: Quick metrics for C#
>

[Tana]

Re: VB.net - C# converter

Thank you everybody for your help, you people rule :)

David, I will definitely try your software.


"Tana" <tana@verizon.n etwrote in message news:%23Ww1l%23 T2GHA.476@TK2MS FTNGP06.phx.gbl ...
Hi,

My company wants to migrate all our apps from vb.net to c#.
Can someone recommend a good migrate/convert tool?
I am hoping that such a tool can do a 90-95% work for me, and I will do the rest :)

I am using VS 2005.

thanks

[chanmm]

Re: VB.net - C# converter

One of the purpose of .Net framework is lighten the cross language calling. If you have existing VB.NET code in place then I believe you can just leave it. For your new application you can develop in C# or build it using class library perhaps so that your existing VB.NET can utilize the C# portion of it.

When you check the Microsoft patterns: http://msdn.microsoft.com/practices/ I don't think they specified which language you must use as well.

Good luck

chanmm
"Tana" <tana@verizon.n etwrote in message news:OHTaqCi2GH A.328@TK2MSFTNG P06.phx.gbl...
Thank you everybody for your help, you people rule :)

David, I will definitely try your software.

If
"Tana" <tana@verizon.n etwrote in message news:%23Ww1l%23 T2GHA.476@TK2MS FTNGP06.phx.gbl ...
Hi,

My company wants to migrate all our apps from vb.net to c#.
Can someone recommend a good migrate/convert tool?
I am hoping that such a tool can do a 90-95% work for me, and I will do the rest :)

I am using VS 2005.

thanks

[Tana]

Re: VB.net - C# converter

Thank you everybody or your help.

Dave, I will definitely try your software.

chanmm, I also have a framework that is written in vb.net. That's why I better convert all my code.
Good news is it seams like these conversion tools actually do a good job, 95% of code gets converted and does not need any intervention. So, I am willing to do the rest, at this point we don't have to mach of code written.

regards
tana


"Tana" <tana@verizon.n etwrote in message news:%23Ww1l%23 T2GHA.476@TK2MS FTNGP06.phx.gbl ...
Hi,

My company wants to migrate all our apps from vb.net to c#.
Can someone recommend a good migrate/convert tool?
I am hoping that such a tool can do a 90-95% work for me, and I will do the rest :)

I am using VS 2005.

thanks

[Tana]

Re: VB.net - C# converter

David,

I must say that I am very pleased with your "instant C#" software.
I did convert much more than 95% of my code.

I reported the minor bug to your company and they fixed it the same day and provided me with a updated executable.
Excellent customer service.

I would recommend this software to anyone who needs to migrate VB.net code to C#.

Tana




"David Anton" <DavidAnton@dis cussions.micros oft.comwrote in message news:C0D197DF-9D96-4230-9B03-53A9A452E5DB@mi crosoft.com...

You can expect much better than 90-95%.
Try the various demo/trial editions of the available converters (including
ours), and pick the best one.
--
David Anton

https://www.tangiblesoftwaresolutions.com

Instant C#: VB to C# converter
Instant VB: C# to VB converter
Instant C++: C#/VB to C++ converter
C# Code Metrics: Quick metrics for C#


"Tana" wrote:

>Hi,
>
>My company wants to migrate all our apps from vb.net to c#.
>Can someone recommend a good migrate/convert tool?
>I am hoping that such a tool can do a 90-95% work for me, and I will do the rest :)
>
>I am using VS 2005.
>
>thanks
>>