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Izhido
Sep 20th, 2009, 05:30 PM
EDIT 2: The project has been moved to CodePlex. NOTE: The old site will still be online, it just won't be updated anymore. Besides, the new site has only the most recent (R3) release.
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EDIT: Release 3 has been published. Go grab it now!
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Hi everyone!

Just wanted to tell you about a tool I've been working on about 3 weeks ago, and released today:

VB6 To WPF Project Migration Aid Tool (http://vb62wpf.codeplex.com/)

This tool will read classes, modules, forms, user controls, and even ActiveX documents created in Visual Basic 6, and map them to recognizable XAML & code-behind files for Windows Presentation Foundation, for Visual Studio 2008 (or later).

Of course, it's by no means a complete migration solution; the files generated need to be modified in order to do something useful with them. Yet, the labor of converting forms & controls to XAML done by this tool, it is quite good, if I may say so :) .

You can download the tool here: VB62WPF - Release 3 (http://vb62wpf.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=35661#DownloadId=91904)

Source code is available as well, here: VB62WPF - Release 3 - Source (http://vb62wpf.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=35661#DownloadId=91905)

The project is available under MIT licensing, so feel free to do (almost) anything you want with it.

And, of course, any comments & suggestions are welcome!

- Izhido

chris128
Sep 23rd, 2009, 10:44 AM
Thanks for posting that, I havent got any vb6 projects to test it with though so I cant comment on how well it works :)