We maintain a system that has over a million lines of COBOL code. Does someone have suggestions about how to migrate to a GUI (probably Windows based) without losing all the business logic we have written in COBOL? And yes, some of the business logic is buried inside the current user interface. ...
Looking at the C# project templates in VS2k8 and the offerings are WPF User Control Library, WPF Custom Control Library and Windows Forms Control Library. Which of these would you use if you wanted to move a legacy active control written in c++ into the world of C# and .NET? ...
Many, if not all, of my old VC++ 6.0 MFC apps don't work in Vista and Server 2008. I had that migration was a problem, but now it's my problem :( How do I go about making these things work? Is that possible? I've searched, but is there some repository of knowledge on this subject? edit: Compatibility mode seems to work. ...
I have read on Stack Overflow some people that have converting to C#2.0 to C#3, but is it really worth it? I have a project that is done at 75% before going in maintenance phase. I am asking to myself if it is worth it to switch to C#3.0? Update: The project will have a web interface now so before entering the maintenance phase we hav...
I wish to migrate the database of a legacy web app from SQL Server to MySQL. What are the limitations of MySQL that I must look out for ? And what all items would be part of a comprehensive checklist before jumping into actually modifying the code ? ...
Which method makes the most sense for importing a module in python that is version specific? My use case is that I'm writing code that will be deployed into a python 2.3 environment and in a few months be upgraded to python 2.5. This: if sys.version_info[:2] >= (2, 5): from string import Template else: from our.compat.string imp...
I have this code: dojo.declare("City", null, { constructor : function(cityid, cityinfo){ } }); dojo.declare("TPolyline", GPolyline, { constructor : function(points, color){ }, initialize : function(map){ }); What should be it's jQuery equivalent? ...
I work for a company that had a large number of applications based on Visual FoxPro. The company is now looking for a migration strategy away from VFP to another language for its desktop applications (and web applications using west-wind). There are two consideration to be made in the coming years (support for VFP from Microsoft will ...
Hi, I would like to create a C# project and implement the existing native (C++) code. Does anyone know about any good tutorial about it? Thanks! ...
I am working on a drawing-based product where I want to produce versions for iPhone, desktop OS/X, Windows Tablets, Silveright-based browser, Windows Mobile, and Windows in that order of priority. For GUI portability, the classic answer is to keep the core in C++ and use Cocoa/Objective-C or WPF/C# thin layers. However, Silverlight com...
Hi, We had an asp.net 1.1 application that we recently migrated to 3.5. We are facing some problems when we do code modification on the migrated application. Here is what is happening In the asp.net 1.1 application we have the page directive codebehind="ePC.aspx.cs". This migrated fine. We made some code changes to the .cs file. Sa...
What successful conversion/rewrite have you done of software you were involved with? What where the languages and framework involved in the process? How large was the software in question? Finally what is the top one or two thing you learned from being involved with the process. This is related to this question ...
What conversion/rewrite have you been involved with that failed? What where the languages and framework involved in the process? How large was the software in question? Finally what is the top one or two thing you learned from being involved with the process. This is related to this question. ...
The machine hosting our svn server failed. We were able to recover the C:\Repositories\ directory. How do we migrate this to a new host? ...
With some changes in the staffing at the office, the levels of C# expertise has dropped off precipitously and there are now more Java developers. It has gotten to the point where the higher-ups are considering moving an existing .NET project written in C# into the Java world. Aside from the obvious problem of starting completely from s...
ORIGINAL Q: I'm wondering if anyone has had experience of migrating a large Cobol/PL1 codebase to Java? How automated was the process and how maintainable was the output? How did the move from transactional to OO work out? Any lessons learned along the way or resources/white papers that may be of benefit would be appreciated. ED...
i would like to have step by step instructions on how to migrate from biztalk 2002 to biztalk 2006 R2. ...
Currently I'm building my Java Web Application on Google AppEngine (GAE), but due to a lot of limitations they have I'm afraid that I'm going to have to switch from GAE to my own server which is running Glassfish (or I can setup any other server if needed). Also I'm planning to run Oracle or MySql databases. What do I need to do in order...
Hi, I have to make a post to a third party https url to get data procesed and sent back. And all I have as an example is this: $signature= foo_string; $data_to_post = json_dictionary; $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $base_url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "$user:$password"); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CUR...
I'm evaluating a migration from a classic ASP 3.0 application to ASP.NET MVC. I've already migrated applications to WebForms, but have decided to try MVC for this migration for a number of reasons, including the fact the code in this application is NOT spaghetti and seems to lend itself to an MVC style layout. One major constraint on th...