convert visual interdev 6.0 project to visual studio 2005 vb.net project
We have a big project created in visual interdev 6.0 that we need to convert to a Visual Studio 2005 vb.net project.
Tried to just open the *.sln-file in vs 2005 that started the conversion wizard. After the "convertion" process (I assume it did not do much at all) had finished, I was not able to open the project in either vs 2005 or visual Interdev 6.0.
I got the following error message:
"The application for project 'C:\........\*.vip' is not installed
Make sure the application for the project type (.vip) is installed."
Anyone have a tip on what to do?
What is the best way to convert a visual interdev project into a vs 2005 project?
Please help!
Hi,
You cannot migrate a Visual Interdev project directly - you will need to create a new Web project in Visual Studio 2005 and bring your pages over one at a time, making the necessary changes to get them to world under ASP .NET. The following topic should get you started:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms228211.aspx
Hope this helps,
Steve Hoag
Visual Basic
In nearly every case, when questions about migration arise, a technical expert will respond with the equivalent of "just do it by hand". No doubt that approach yields the highest quality results, but the decision is made in a vacuum, without consideration of the business environment.
Most of the time, there isn't time or money to "just do it by hand". The legacy environment must be discarded, and it must be done quickly and cheaply, even if the resulting code doesn't take full advantage of every feature of the new framework.
Microsoft has done its customers a huge disservice by failing to provide adequate migration tools, or even usable migration tools. By extension, Microsoft has done itself a huge disservice, driving many frustrated developers and customers to J2EE.
Does anyone here have any practical recommendations to migrate 3 VB6 COM objects, a VB6 batch program, an ASP web site, a .net 1.1 C# web application, and 7 ASP web pages called from that .net 1.1 web application, all into C# .net 2.0?
