ghaith

hello,
My company is considering a (long needed) switch from delphi 5 to .NET, and i wonder if there's a way to simply convert the application as i noticed that almost all the components we used are not there..

Thank you

lectricpharaoh

While there are apparently automated language conversion tools available, I can't comment as to how well they work. However, they seem to be mainly syntactic in nature, meaning they'll convert the language syntax, but if the APIs and other components used are not available, they won't help much.

Make no mistake- something like this is not a trivial task, and will probably require a lot of time and effort to complete, not to mention the inevitable bug fixes. If you're talking about a single application, it might not be too bad (particularly if it's a small app), but if you're talking about converting a large code base, then you've got your work cut out for you.

What you really have to consider, though, is what the business rationale for the conversion is. In other words, how do you justify the potential costs? While wanting to get away from a Pascal code base is understandable, at least to someone scarred for life by Turbo Pascal in high school, it's not really valid from a business perspective.

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Newer versions of Delphi can compile directly to .net. Check out these Google search results, e.g. http://www.delphibasics.co.uk/NetArt...e=NETForDelphi

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ghaith

Hey,
Thanks for the replies,
actually what we need is to convert from delphi 5 to delphi for .NET, so we're not exactly looking for a converter to C# or another language, i thought a switch must be relatively easy, especially after i read some of the VLC.NET stuff, they use almost the same components, however coudn't successfully import the project.. maybe i missed a feature in the builder? i did successfully open the project in the win32 builder, i just had problems with the 3rd party components, which is normal..

has anyone tried such a conversion before?
thank you