Visual C++ ------> Visual Basic
There is no GOOD way to convert from any one language to any other (with
the exception that Ada 95 will compile to run on a Java virtual machine).
There are many tools that claim to do this, but when you look at what they
are actually doing, they only automate part of the process and leave HUGE
gaps. These gaps are the hard parts of the code anyway, and a dumb monkey
could have done the part of the conversion that the utility performed.
Give it up. Either rewrite the app from scratch, hire some C++ programmers
to maintain the legacy app, or don't buy it in the first place.
Also, don't take a bunch of VB programmers and try to change them into C++
programmers overnight. You will need most of the team to be
dyed-in-the-wool C++ programmers just to bring the VB programmers along.
Don't get me wrong - I hate C++. I do not think more highly of C++
programmers than VB programmers. However, VC++ has a TREMENDOUSLY steep
and long learning curve. It is hard to do anything at all in VC++ without
several months of arduous mental self-{*filter*}.
You would be better off, if you buy the product, to sell the current
version without changes. Write the next version in VB, rearchitected and
reengineered from scratch to be maintainable and updatable for years to
come.
This, of course, is just one man's humble opinion.
Quote:
> Hello all. My company is thinking about buying anothers product. This
> is good thing because saves us development time :^) However the
> products was developed in Visual C++ v5.0 and everyone here (including
> yours truly) are VB developers. :^{
> Tall and skinny of it is, is there a way to convert a VC++ project to
> VB. I have seen a number of converters for VB to Java and vice versa,
> but have yet to come across anything with VC++ to VB.
> Anyone know of such a product? Know where to buy/lease it??
