Moving Application from VB.NET Webforms to MVC C#

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I have an ASP.NET WebForms 4.0 application that I built as a sole developer. I started it in VB/Webforms because that is what I knew at the time.

I have now been doing C#/MVC and desperately want to switch the project over.

I know you can integrate MVC into Webforms (I've done that on another project). However, how can I move from VB to C#? I really don't want to start MVC in VB, so I feel the first thing I need to do is switch the project to VB.

If I want to move to C# slowly over time (part time development, as I add features), how can I go about doing that since it's an application and not a website? As far as I know, the application has to be all VB or C# unlike websites.

As far as I know you can have both .cs and .vb files in the same solution.. — Mathieu Guindon
– Mathieu Guindon, Commented Jul 30, 2013 at 3:00
@retailcoder, you can in the same solution, but AFAIK, you can't in the same web application project. — scojomodena
– scojomodena, Commented Jul 30, 2013 at 3:21
No, but you can reference the c# dll from the vb dll and rewrite it in c# one bite at a time, replacing vb implementations by their rewritten c# equivalents.. that's how I'm tackling a VB6 to c# rewrite, while keeping the VB6 app in production. — Mathieu Guindon
– Mathieu Guindon, Commented Jul 30, 2013 at 3:27
@retailcoder, but would I be able to have C# aspx pages in a separate project and can you have two webform projects in the same solution? — scojomodena
– scojomodena, Commented Jul 30, 2013 at 4:04
Webforms and MVC are two different technologies just concentrate on that and for vb to c# each part of vb can be converted to C# and there google will help a lot in that — ahmedsafan86
– ahmedsafan86, Commented Jul 30, 2013 at 9:40

Samy Bencherif · Accepted Answer · 2014-06-25 23:13:18Z

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This is an online translator for the two programming languages:

http://converter.telerik.com/

From my past experience it works pretty well.

edited Jun 25, 2014 at 23:13

answered Jul 30, 2013 at 2:55

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scojomodena Over a year ago

Good suggestion, I just tried it. I don't know if I'd like all the code it produces, but something I could slowly tweak at least.

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 10:34:12Z

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As I mentioned in the comment .

Webforms and MVC are two different technologies just concentrate on that and for vb to c# each part of vb can be converted to C# and there google will help a lot in that

anything in VB can converted to C#, all of them make use of the same framework but vb has inherited some old functions from the vb6 that can be converted to c# look at my answer to that question Using LSET or RSET in a c#-aspx application, what I have done in that is that I used ILSpy and opened Microsoft.VisualBasic dll and looked at the Strings class implementation the ILSpy allow you to view the code in vb or in C#

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Kevin Shah · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-30 10:21:53Z

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you can also try this url

developerfusion.com/tools/

This site provides conversion from C# to Vb.Net even you can also convert into Ruby and Python too using this.

answered Jul 30, 2013 at 10:21

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