Re: VC++ 6.0 To .NET

From:

"Tom Serface" <tom.nospam@camaswood.com>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.language

Date:

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:55:57 -0700

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Aside from all the terminology advice given I'd just port directly to VC++
2005. Going from 2005 to 2008 will be a lot easier so I wouldn't wait. You
will likely find a few things to fix, but I've never taken more than a day
or so converting a project. If you want to really make it a .NET
application (I'm assuming you don't) then that would be a lot more work
especially if the application uses MFC. If the application works as a
native application I don't think you'll benefit from converting it to an
actual .NET application unless there is something specifically there that
you need.

Tom

<elwilj@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1190047097.294281.50880@19g2000hsx.googlegroups.com...

I'm new to the MS Visual Studio world. I've just inherited a project
that was written entirely in VC++ 6.0. Should I make the move to VC+
+.NET and bybass VC++ 2005? Does the upgrade to .NET involve a great
deal of code rewrites? What resources are out there to help with this
migration? We are on Windows 2000 and XP machines ... must admit I'm
a unix guy thru and thru but this app needs some work. Does anyone
out there have any recommendations?

Thanks
LJ

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