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Sander Rossel29-Mar-23 23:49
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What the title says.
For most people this (hopefully) happened some twenty years ago, but I'm going to inherit a lot of VB6 applications, some even still work with a dBase database.
The programmer is going into retirement and this (reasonably large) company needs someone to take care of their software.

Our (and their) first priority is getting off of dBase, the current programmer already started working on that.
Next we'll need to move VB6 to .NET (Framework, probably).
I know there used to be converter tools around, but I've heard bad things about them.
They're usually not worth the effort.

Ideally, I'd rather just rewrite everything to web-based and cloud-ready .NET 6 applications, but I don't think we'll have the time nor money.

Any tips (other than "RUN!")?

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