I know that since "native" delphi and delphi.net are different technologies it is unlikely to produce a tool that can migrate your old dfm forms to win forms for delphi prism. However is there a tool that facilitate such migration? Basically I have a "native" delphi project that I want to migrate to delphi .net, it is a desktop application, how do I go about that?
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The only tool wich i know to port Delphi Win32 and Delphi .Net Code to Delphi-Prism is Oxidizer, but this app does not translate the Delphi forms to Winforms, Oxydizer is good for converting library code and other non-visual related code, however it is still a great option to help you to translate your Delphi code.
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RRUZ
2010-09-28 03:54:38
Thank you for your comment. It's the forms that worry me most at the moment, though.
zespri
2010-09-28 04:32:21
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VCL and Winforms are enough different to make such conversion not easy. There are also some components that are Delphi specific without a direct .NET counterpart, and a conversion tool probably would fail if unsupported third party controls are used. The old VCL.NET framework was an attempt to make that transition easier, but failed. A conversion tool may be written, but IMHO it would be of limited use and work for simple forms only. There's no one I am aware of, and because most developers that migrated from Delphi to .NET went the VS/C# way - I see very little advantages of moving a desktop application from Delphi to Prism - there are very little reasons to write one.
ldsandon
2010-09-28 07:46:23
This is very good input as my thinking was to migrate to prism and then to c#. I hoped that this two step migration could be easier as decompiling project to c# and then fixing it up so it works, while not super easy but definitely easier than manual re-write. Now it appears that this was not that good idea to begin with. Thank you.
zespri
2010-09-28 19:52:59