ArtinSoft’s Visual Basic 6.0 and ASP Assessment Tool
System Requirements
- Microsoft Windows XP or higher
- Microsoft .NET framework 2.0
- Microsoft Office 2003 or later for opening the reports in Excel Format (optional)
If you have any issues with the assesment please contact
support@artinsoft.com
ArtinSoft’s Visual Basic 6.0 and ASP Assessment Tool is an analysis program
to help you understand your application and measure the effort required to migrate
your code to .NET. This tool analyzes the application’s source code and creates
an accurate inventory of the code, components and their relationships from a migration
perspective.
The main goal of the VB6 and ASP Assessment Tool is to analyze Visual Basic 6.0
and ASP projects and obtain information useful for determining the effort required
for the conversion to Visual Basic .NET, C#, and ASP.NET. The Assessment Tool generates
a group of both HTML and Excel-compatible reports that are used as a basis for further
calculations related to task effort and cost, including the following:
In order to make the analysis as accurate as possible, the Assessment Tool also
detects and counts lines taking into account common code reuse patterns, such as
shared files, and uses heuristics to detect potential duplicate files that appear
in more than one project.
Visual Basic 6.0 and ASP File Statistics
The VB6 and ASP Assessment Tool also generates analysis information at the file
level. In this report it is possible to identify whether a file was detected as
shared or duplicated, and review the actual counts at the file level. This level
of detail allows for a more comprehensive planning as the project progresses.
Project References
When performing a migration, it is necessary to have a clear picture of the components
used in the application, and where they are referenced. The Project References report
produced by the VB6 and ASP Assessment Tool lists all the references from a given
project, and goes a step further by classifying them into Internal (references to
other Visual Basic 6.0 projects), External (binary references) or Undetermined (no
binary or source present in the analysis) references.
Manipulating the Data
Along with the HTML reports, the VB6 and ASP Assessment Tool also allows you to
open the reports using Microsoft Excel. It is then possible to use Excel’s powerful
analysis features to manipulate the data gathered during the analysis and create
personalized reports and views, and to start working on the effort estimate based
on the results.
Next Steps
The investment required for a migration project depends mainly on the complexity
of the original application, which is calculated taking into account a number of
characteristics of the underlying code and the required target architecture.
So please send us the results of the VB/ASP Assessment Tool and we will provide
you with a license quote for our automated migration tools (The
Visual Basic Upgrade Companion or the
ASP Upgrade Companion), if you want to perform the conversion using
your own resources, or with a ballpark for a turn-key solution, if you are looking
towards leaving the VB6 to .NET,
VB6 to Web or ASP to ASP.NET migration project
in the hands of ArtinSoft’s experts.