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ArtinSoft unveils VBUC 4.0 to upgrade business critical applications with Visual Studio 2010 compatibility

4/12/2010 ArtinSoft Update / info@artinsoft.com

The leading Visual Basic 6.0 to Microsoft .NET Framework migration product delivers unique value to extend the life of legacy systems across industries like healthcare, insurance and finance, that need to comply with regulations that encourage the move to supported platforms

Chesterfield, MO. - April 12, 2010 - ArtinSoft Corporation announced today the pre-release of version 4.0 of its Visual Basic Upgrade Companion (VBUC), an advanced tool that takes Visual Basic 6.0 applications and converts them to both Visual Basic .NET and C#. This new version creates solutions and projects that are fully compatible with Visual Studio 2010, allowing customers to use Microsoft Corp.’s latest development environment to further enhance their code.

The new version of the leading Visual Basic 6.0 to .NET Framework migration product includes plenty of new features that improve tool usability and robustness, while further increasing productivity on conversion projects. It upgrades parameters, properties, statements, classes, functions and controls, and it is now possible to migrate the most commonly used ActiveX grids to .NET Framework equivalents through a brand new mapping mechanism. The VBUC 4.0 also introduces a series of predefined migration profiles, will be to able to display all the information to the user (interface, EWIs, log info, command line, etc) in several languages beside English, such as German and Japanese, and it now fully supports Windows 7, Windows Vista and 64-bits.

“Microsoft is pleased that ArtinSoft, a Visual Studio Industry Partner, has invested early in supporting Visual Studio 2010 and our next-generation application development platform, and is today simultaneously shipping Visual Basic Upgrade Companion 4.0”, said Matt Carter, director of Visual Studio product management at Microsoft. “Products like Visual Basic Upgrade Companion 4.0 help customers simplify their development process from design to deployment when using Microsoft products like Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.”

ArtinSoft’s solution targets companies and developers maintaining Visual Basic 6.0 applications which business value needs to be leveraged. Though it is not exclusive for specific industries, it is more common for Software Vendors (ISVs) and End Users from the Healthcare, Insurance and Financial verticals that wish to upgrade their critical applications to the .NET Framework platform. Using the VBUC facilitates this move and allows companies to comply with the requirements of strict regulations, like HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley, by moving to a modern software platform

“Legacy software, where the underlying technology is coming out of support by the vendor, can definitely make it easier for the systems to be compromised, since there is no access to updates and patches that provide a continued layer of security” noted Roberto Leitón, ArtinSoft CEO. “The best way to combat obsolescence and to comply with industry regulations is to ensure that applications are built using technologies like the .NET Framework 4, which incorporates the latest advances and best practices in the security field, thus mitigating the risk of breaches that make critical data vulnerable. ArtinSoft’s VBUC provides a cost-effective way to leverage the existing investment in Visual Basic 6.0 systems, by converting them to native Visual Basic .NET or C# applications that do not require a proprietary runtime library”, added Leitón,

The Visual Basic Upgrade Companion is an extensible and customizable solution that provides about 80% savings when compared to a manual rewrite and 60% versus other tools, generally lowering the migration project timeframe by up to 5 times. It has been successfully used already by thousands of customers around the globe, from independent developers to large global corporations, including several Fortune 100 companies.

Customers can license the Visual Basic Upgrade Companion to perform the migration in-house, but ArtinSoft also provides consulting services that range from bundled training and technical support options to a turn-key project that delivers a final, tested application. For more information and downloading a free evaluation version of the VBUC, please visit www.artinsoft.com.

About ArtinSoft

With over fifteen years of experience, ArtinSoft has proven to be a key player in software transformation, by allowing customers from all over the world to ensure business continuity and compliance through migration solutions and developer tools. Created upon principles of artificial intelligence and a relentless passion for innovation, the company is now the de-facto leader in the Visual Basic 6.0 application renewal space, holding an exceptional record of real world migration projects while in constant growth through a strategic partner network. ArtinSoft’s solutions enable organizations to leverage years of intellectual and financial investment in the most cost-effective way. Furthermore, not only can its products be thoroughly customized, but also complemented with different training and technical support options.