Click here to Skip to main content
15,893,644 members
Please Sign up or sign in to vote.
1.00/5 (2 votes)
See more:
I developed an application in VB.Net (desktop) but my supervisors want me to convert it into a web based application
Posted

They cannot really "want" to "convert" (even if they say such words), because this verb, "convert", makes no sense in this context. The features of a Web applications are fundamentally different, so there is no such thing as "functionally equivalent" solution, except some very trivial cases. You need to sit down, create new requirements, and then design and implement new solution. Perhaps your existing solution could be useful for a reference and a source of the implementation of some algorithms, those which are fully abstract from the UI. In future, try to abstract out UI as much as possible.

—SA
 
Share this answer
 
Comments
Wendelius 12-Aug-15 16:01pm    
Fully agree that starting from the new requirements is the best way.
Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 12-Aug-15 16:17pm    
Thank you, Mika.
—SA
I suggest you rewrite it. There may be some tools but they won't do a good job.
 
Share this answer
 
How easy this will be depends on how well you've written it and how much of the code you have abstracted and separated into layers. If you've done a "good" job you should only really have to re-write the interface layer and maybe tinker here and there. If you've built a monolithic app with lots of code in your event handlers then it's going to take far more work to get it working as a web application.
 
Share this answer
 

This content, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)



CodeProject, 20 Bay Street, 11th Floor Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5J 2N8 +1 (416) 849-8900