Today we unveiled something that we have been working on for the past few months – we’ve formed a strategic alliance with Gizmox to offer migrations from Visual Basic 6.0 to the web. This offering uses the Visual WebGui Framework to maintain the same user interface as the original application, inside an either ASP.NET or Silverlight application running on the web. We’ve started the process for customizing the Visual Basic Upgrade Companion to generate code that works with the Visual WebGui framework, and have been working very closely with Gizmox to determine the best approach for doing this type of migration.
We are very exited about this offering, since it is something that has been requested by our customers for a while. A very common scenario we run into is organizations that host their own application, and access them using “remote desktop”-like solutions such as those from Citrix or Terminal Services. Moving these application to a web-based environment with this solution allows these organizations to save money on licensing costs while preserving the rich UI from the original application. And, in the future, these applications can be easily hosted on a cloud computing provider, giving the ability to scale without having to heavily invest in additional hardware or licenses.
Here is a short video I recorded that shows how applications are converted tot he web, including the final result running as an ASP.NET application.
Link to the video on the external site
Here is a link to the press release announcing the alliance: ArtinSoft and Gizmox Announce Strategic Alliance to Migrate Visual Basic 6.0 Applications to the Web
And you can read more about the benefits of this solution in this webpage: Upgrade your strategic Visual Basic 6.0 assets to a web-based platform