Visual Studio comes with a free VB6 conversion tool. Why should I pay for a similar product?
• When measuring the cost-effectiveness of the automatic migration approach, all depends on the specific translator. If the translator doesn’t have a high success rate, many developers (correctly) estimate that cost/time savings don’t compare favorably with the opportunity of re-designing the application from the ground up. The Upgrade Wizard that comes with Visual Studio does a good job in translating VB6 code to VB.NET, but it fails to correctly convert several VB6 language features that VB Migration Partner fully supports. Our tests on a random sample of applications downloaded from the Internet show that VB Migration Partner generates up to 10-15x fewer compilation errors than the Upgrade Wizard. VB Migration Partner can convert most of the language features that have been considered as “not automatically convertible”, such as Gosubs, arrays with nonzero lower index, As Any and callback parameters in Declares, auto-instancing variables, deterministic finalization, and more. We do b
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