#MIGRATE FROM 5 TO TOWEB 6 MANUAL#

Some of these tools will help with different objectives, the first one will help you convert only the UI and to WebForms, the last two ones will generate ASP.NET MVC, one using a custom runtime and set of libraries and the other with common HTML/JS/CSS libraries such as Kendo MVVM, Kendo UI, AngularJS or Bootstrap among others.

#MIGRATE FROM 5 TO TOWEB 6 MANUAL#

There are options to convert desktop applications in an automated way, these can convert both the UI and the code of the application:Įven when using automated migration tools, in most of the cases you will have to perform a significant amount of manual work to get the application working in the same way as the original one. The same application is being also re-written for WPF (another stateful environment) without so many issues.Ĭonverting a desktop application to a web application has several challenges: I've recently been putting the logic of an application that was originally a WinForms into MVC and the biggest barrier to getting a responsive speed is the fact that, although reasonably well written, the logic layer assumed a stateful environment. because later on will be a different request/response cycle and all the data you collect now is going to be dropped as soon as the current response is completed. In that scenario you'd know exactly what you need up front and can load just the bits you need and not other things that may be needed later on. In a web application you have a stateless model which is run on requests and responses. The logic layer may assume a stateful application in which case it may rely on lazy loading. However, there are some gotchas even if you have a very well written application. Obviously, you have to write a new UI layer from scratch, but, if the logic layer is written well enough that isn't going to be too much work compared with writing the whole application again from scratch. You are re-using the logic and data layers (which is where all the functionality would be). If you have designed the application well enough it should be relatively easy to convert a Win Forms application to a web forms application by just swapping out the UI layer and replacing it.

Migrate from 5 to toweb 6