VBUC

ArtinSoft’s Visual Basic Upgrade Companion (VBUC)

The VB6 to .NET Migration Tool Trusted by Fortune 100 Companies Worldwide

ArtinSoft’s Visual Basic Upgrade Companion (VBUC) is the industry-leading tool for the migration of VB6 to .NET. With a proven track record of millions of lines migrated to C# and VB.NET, the VBUC helps you move your business critical applications out of obsolescence, free of ties to third-party dependencies

The VBUC is complemented with extensive documentation, mainly at our VB to .NET-> site, plus available training and support packages. You may also want to check our VB migration consulting services.

  • About 80% savings versus a manual rewrite and 60% versus other tools
  • Lower your project timeframe by 4x
  • Generate 100% native VB.Net or C# code free of ties to third-party runtimes
  • Extensible and customizable solution
More Benefits

Is your organization still using VB6 and currently looking for a way to:

  • Move away from an unsupported platform

    According to Microsoft’s official Product Family Life-Cycle Guidelines->, as of March 2008 Visual Basic 6.0 reached its End of Life.

  • Preserve and leverage the application’s capital investment

    Guarantee business continuity by avoiding losing or replacing applications that have been thoroughly customized to meet their specific business needs.

  • Reduce development, maintenance and deployment costs

    With a large number of reusable components included with the .NET Framework, easier configuration and coexistence of shared libraries (DLL Hell).

  • Break scalability & future evolution constraints

    Applications in legacy platforms have very little chance of being enhanced to take advantage of new technologies.

  • Address compliance issues

    Industry, legal and internal policies and regulations, like Sarbanes-Oxley, have forced many companies to move their applications away from unsupported platforms.

  • Ensure time to market

    Meet market demands, keep a competitive advantage or expand your product portfolio or services offerings in a timely manner.

Visual Basic Upgrade Companion Enterprise Edition
VBUC 4.0 - Learn More

The Visual Basic Upgrade Companion will allow you to:

  • Cost-effectively convert your application to either C# or VB.NET

    About 80% savings versus a manual rewrite and 60% versus other tools.

  • Accelerate your VB6 to .NET migration

    Lower your project timeframe up to 4 times less than other solutions.

  • Reduce project risks

    Our non-disruptive highly automated tool preserves all the business rules embedded in the code and the value of the original application.

  • Take advantage of the new platform features

    Generate 100% native VB.NET or C# code, easy to maintain and evolve. No ties to proprietary third-party runtimes that deprive you of all the benefits of the .NET Framework.

  • Extend and customize the migration tool based on your needs

    Add support for more legacy components and enhance existing features to comply with enterprise coding standards.

Detailed Technical Specification

For a comprehensive technical site around the VBUC, please visit VB to NET->

"I was skeptical of using automated conversion tools. When I found ArtinSoft Visual Basic Upgrade Companion I thought it was just an extension of the free wizard in Visual Studio. What a surprise to find out that the VBUC is in a class of its own: simply put, the best option to evolve your VB6 application to .NET "
Ivano Raino
Zucchetti S.p.A.->