Delphi to C# Migration

Question

Hi All,

I wonder if someone could proffer advice on the benefits, the cost, and most importantly the risks of migrating Delphi applications/codes to C#.

The big guns of the company is very much inclined to go ahead with this migration.

Thank you in advance.

Alex Kirpichny · Answer

Hi, for a smoother migration process, consider using Ispirer Toolkit. It automates much of the conversion from Delphi to C#, reducing manual effort and minimizing risks associated with code migration. The toolkit can help streamline the process and address potential compatibility issues more efficiently. https://www.ispirer.com/application-conversion/delphi-to-dotnet Hope this helps!

Ankur Jain · Answer

Hi! please take a look at following links....if these solve your problem please don't forget to marked it as answer.... http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/310667/NET-Code-Conversion Delphi has some considerable advantages for Win32. Not that .NET apps are inherently bad, but try: running a .NET app (any version) on Win95/ME, where .NET doesn't exist (AFAIK) distributing any small ( providing any .NET app on a system that has no Internet access (yes, they exist) distributing your .NET apps in countries without widespread high bandwidth keep people from seeing your source code without spending a ton of dough (Reflection, anyone?) Garbage collection in .NET might be really nice, but anyone who knows anything about programming can also handle manual allocation/deallocation of memory easily with Delphi, and GC is available with reference-counted interfaces. Isn't one of the things that brought all of the non-programmers to proliferation the pseudo-GC of VB? IMO, GC is one of the things that makes .NET dangerous, in the same way VB was dangerous - it makes things too easy and allows people who really have no clue what they're doing to write software that ends up making a mess. (And, before I get flamed to death here, it's great for the people who do know what they're doing as well, and so was VB; I'm just not so sure that the advantage to the skilled outweights the hazards to us from the unskilled. ) Delphi Prism (AKA Rem Objects Oxygene, formerly Chrome) provides the GC version of Delphi that those who need it are looking for, along with ASP.NET and WPF/Silverlight/CE, with the readability (and lack of curly braces) of Delphi. For those (like me) for which Unicode support isn't a major factor, Delphi 2007 provides ASP.NET and VCL.NET, as well as native Win32 support. And, at a place like where I work, when workstations are only upgraded (at a minimum) every three years, and where we just got rid of the last Win95 machine because it wasn't a priority to upgrade, the .NET framework is an issue. (Especially with company proxy requirements only allowing Internet access to a handful of people, limiting bandwidth and download capabilities, and proper non-admin accounts with no USB devices allowed, all still running across a Netware network - no such thing as Windows Update, and never a virus so far because nothing gets in.)