I have a Windows Form Desktop application written with Visual Studio 2005. Can I migrate it to GOA WinForms for Flash or GOA WinForms for Silverlight?
Yes, you can. However you will have to rewrite some part of your code because Web applications do not work exactly the same way desktop applications do. The problems you will face can be categorized in four groups: • Web applications mainly work in asynchronous mode. When writing desktop applications you often make the assumption that the code will automatically “stops” at some points of your program. For instance, when showing a dialog box or retrieving some data from the server, you often implicitly expect that your program will wait until the process has completed before continuing. Most of the time, this is not the way Web based application are working. • Even if the classes provided by GOA are extremely close to their .NET counterparts, there are small differences that may imply that you will have to slightly change your code. • If you use Third Party libraries, they may not be available for GOA yet. • The way you will retrieve data will likely not be the same in your desktop appl
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