On Thursday 2009 January 15 04:38:31 Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
Perhaps this is off topic. Does anyone on this list have experience with importing MS Visual Basic 6 code into MONO? I have been asked by an engineer about getting it into MS .NET, and I suggested that since a change was going to happen, why not explore MONO as well. Should I hide behind my desk? I confess to having zip VB experience. I am a C/asm/Tcl type.
There was/is a migration tool available from MS to rewrite VB 6 code as VB.Net. Unfortunately, it's not very good. If you run it against programs of any complexity you either get code that won't compile (syntax error) OR you get code that has many more bugs (runtime errors). So, if you are going to move from VB 6 to VB.Net, it is a great time to move to mono, clean up the code, and re-architect applications or whole systems 'cause you are in for a complete re-write. That's not a bad thing, but does require significantly more resources than, e.g., the VB 5 to VB 6 move and you need to manage the project well enough to avoid Second System Syndrome. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/