ArtinSoft’s Visual Basic Upgrade Companion

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



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Visual Basic Upgrade Companion Enterprise Edition

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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.


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.