[VB6] FireStrike 20mm Wargaming Software

[yereverluvinuncleber]

I had planned to migrate this application to VB.NET assuming that it would be possible and practical given some effort. However my recent experience with another trial migration of a 8,500 line project has made me question my own ability to migrate a larger project. I don't think I have the stamina nor the persistence to do it. It might simply put me off the application altogether and I don't want that.

I think for this application I have to determine what the future path might be and in the absence of a tool that can replace VB6 now or in the near future I have to think of the long term solution and I think that will will have to be ReactOS. I think I may finish this project in the same timescale as the ReactOS team, ie. very slowly.

It is a pity that I can't migrate it and I'm loathe to lose it entirely, all that work. It comprises a lot of control arrays, the use of pictureboxes as containers (frame objects), cursor keys to navigate spreadsheet style forms, lots of arrays starting from 1, a great deal of string manipulation all over the place, use of APIs, combobox and scrollbar events that will all have profound effects when changed to VB NET equivalents. Worst still, the sheer volume of all these, mean I probably won't be able to handle the vast amount of work to complete. The program still needs lots of work in itself but a re-write from scratch is simply out of the question. There are some parts that do really require a re-write, some that I never really started and so I could do those in .NET but I would end up with a bastard child, part VB6 and part .NET and that is no good at all.

So I am not sure where to go with this tool. I can't abandon it having spent so much time on it.

So many here must be in the same quandary, what do you do?

The only option seems to be carry on coding in VB6 and hope for the best and pray for one of those VB6 replacements to come good.