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Moving to Visual Studio C++/C#

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We are currently in the Borland C++6/embarcadero XE4 fat client with sybase database. I've worked with Visual Studio long ago. I am planning on writing a converter to convert a majority of our code ... my talent. In converting to C++/C# there are lots of choices ... our code is mostly .DLL's static dialogs ... our industry has many companies using thin clients/Unix machines. So long term I believe our best option for support/deployment/development is to go to a web app.
Today I would just like to get into the Visual Studio camp and pick the best way to take our fat client DLL's Dialogs to visual studio C++. This brings up the hot topic of UI and my unfamiliarity with the newer stuff specifically WPF XAML etc.
I'm looking for thoughts and recommendations ... thanks
- Moved by Amanda Zhu Friday, November 22, 2013 8:07 AM
Wednesday, November 20, 2013 5:29 PM
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You may have to ask in more than one forum.
WPF
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/home?forum=wpf
XMAL
C++ / C#
Regards, Dave Patrick ....
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties or guarantees , and confers no rights.Sunday, November 24, 2013 4:30 PM
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The libraries are signficantly different so an easier solution is just to reference the borland dll in a VS project and treat the dll as unmanaged code. You will be able to call the dll as library functions from either VS C++, C#, or even Vbnet.
jdweng
Wednesday, November 20, 2013 5:53 PM -
So we are looking at the harder solution ... total conversion.Our plan is to convert all of our Borland code into Visual Studio, no Borland. Most of our code uses the KISS and a few Standard components(button, checkbox, string grids etc). I'm pretty confident I can create a converter for 90%+ of the code. Plus I would like to update the UI to be more up to date.Wednesday, November 20, 2013 6:20 PM
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Hello,
Thank you for your post.
I am afraid that the issue is out of support range of VS General Question forum which mainly discusses WPF & SL designer, Visual Studio Guidance Automation Toolkit, Developer Documentation and Help System and Visual Studio Editor.
I am moving your question to the moderator forum ("Where is the forum for..?"). The owner of the forum will direct you to a right forum.
In addition, I think that Visual C++ Forum: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/home?forum=vcgeneral may be a better forum for your issue.
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You may have to ask in more than one forum.
WPF
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/home?forum=wpf
XMAL
C++ / C#
Regards, Dave Patrick ....
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties or guarantees , and confers no rights.Sunday, November 24, 2013 4:30 PM