by John Browne, on Nov 8, 2021 9:05:33 AM
Here's the back story: senior development manager needs to move a legacy desktop application to the web. Our company gives him a proposal for a migration. The C-suite asks him …
Read Storyby Mauricio Rojas, on Apr 30, 2020 7:58:45 PM
I have migrated several applications both in PowerBuilder and in VB6 that used command line parameters in order to enable some functionality or select a different database for example. On …
Read Storyby Mauricio Rojas, on Nov 26, 2019 10:02:59 AM
Usually when we modernize legacy VB6, Delphi or PowerBuilder apps some parts of the migrated application depend on using a device which is attached to the client using the app …
Read Storyby Mauricio Rojas, on Nov 5, 2019 10:21:57 AM
Once you have modernized your legacy VB6, Powerbuilder or Windows Forms App using WebMAP, your application is now a modern web application with an Angular Front End and ASP NET Core BackEnd. By default the code generated during a WebMAP migration is supposed to have both frontend and backend published on the same server. But suppose that …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Sep 24, 2018 8:00:00 AM
Today we're all pretty excited that Syncfusion has announced support for WebMAP, which means if you have Windows Forms apps using their controls you can now easily map them to …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Jun 21, 2018 1:03:10 PM
In our last blog post, we looked at how to change the styling of individual elements in our migrated Angular application. Just a reminder in case you haven't been following …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Jun 13, 2018 3:27:44 PM
We recently updated our WebMAP architecture posts to reflect the significant improvements that WebMAP5 makes in generated app code (compared to previous versions). If you haven't seen them, this is …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Jun 6, 2018 1:03:04 PM
Before we jump into the last installment, let's briefly review what we leaned in part 1 and part 2. If you're just jumping into this here, you probably want to go …
Read Storyby John Browne, on May 6, 2018 8:00:00 PM
When I first joined Mobilize.Net--actually before I joined Mobilize.Net, since I was interviewing for the job--and I heard the business model was tools to do code conversion, I. Was. Skeptical …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Feb 22, 2018 6:00:00 AM
Here's a cool idea: take your old desktop ERP system and migrate it to the web. Then... Add a barcode scanner widget, run the client on a tablet, and use …
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